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Stockham, Nebraska

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct 1. It lies in ZIP code area 68818. The Survey maps it on the Stockham quadrangle. 32 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,699 feet above sea level.

Stockham within Hamilton County

Population over time

2 figures

Stockham fell from 44 to 32 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201044
202032-12 (-27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

10 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Stockham between 2007 and 2020, burning about 108 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 September 2007Debris and open burning15 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 June 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresRainwater Basin Wetland Management DistrictNELSON
12 March 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 February 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 February 2017Debris and open burning35 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

32 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stockham in 32 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 23 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2022HailStockham$500,000Hail up to two inches in diameter was reported. Emergency management reported that corn fields in the area were destroyed by the wind-driven hail.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindStockham$150,000A newer large metal outbuilding with gravel floors suffered significant damage, losing much of its roof and at least one wall. There was also a pivot just to the south of that outbuilding has at least 3 towers blown over.
June 1997HailStockham$125,000no account filed
July 2023HailStockham$100,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindStockham$50,000no account filed
August 2020Tornado (EF0)Stockham$30,000Crop damage and scouring occurred. The tornado started in Hamilton County and continued into Clay County.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindStockham$25,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in some tree limbs 3 to 4 inches in diameter being downed.
May 2014HailStockham$25,000Quarter to half dollar size hail was reported.
May 2014HailStockham$25,000no account filed
May 1998HailStockham$20,000no account filed
May 1998HailStockham$10,000no account filed
May 1998HailStockham$10,000no account filed
July 2008HailStockham$5,000Significant crop damage in a 3 mile by 4 mile swath northeast of Stockham.
August 1996HailStockham$2,000no account filed
April 2023HailStockham-Hail up to the size of tennis balls was reported in Stockham.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindStockham-Wind gusts estimated to be near 70 MPH downed tree limbs up to 6 to 8 inches in diameter.
May 2017Heavy RainStockham-A total of 3.30 inches of rain had fallen over the past 24 hours.
May 2014Heavy RainStockham-The 24 hour rainfall total reported from Sunday through Monday morning was 4.25 inches.
June 2002Tornado (F0)Stockham-A brief touch down along the flanking line of the thunderstorm as reported by an off duty NWS meteorologist.
May 2022HailStockham-no account filed
August 2018HailStockham-no account filed
May 2016HailStockham-no account filed
September 2015HailStockham-no account filed
July 2015HailStockham-no account filed
July 2014HailStockham-no account filed
April 2014HailStockham-no account filed
June 2014HailStockham-no account filed
November 2012HailStockham-no account filed
April 2005HailStockham-no account filed
April 2005HailStockham-no account filed
September 2001HailStockham-no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindStockham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamilton County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Aurora11.0 miles13
Hampton11.6 miles15
Giltner12.0 miles12
Murphy14.5 miles12
Phillips19.2 miles12
Kronborg19.8 miles14
Marquette20.1 miles14
Hordville25.0 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on StockhamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2449476The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 833833. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.