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Stockville, Nebraska

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Stockville precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69039. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stockville quadrangle. 25 people lived here at the 2010 count. It stands 2,484 feet above sea level.

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Stockville within Frontier County

Population over time

2 figures

Stockville fell from 227 to 25 between 1890 and 2010. 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
1890227
201025

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

3 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Stockville between 2016 and 2020, burning about 13 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1

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
23 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 March 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Frontier County

Storms near this place

60 of 129 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stockville in 129 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 82 hail, 27 thunderstorm wind, 12 tornado, 6 flash flood. 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
April 2013Thunderstorm WindStockville$6,000,000A bow echo produced straight-line winds that were estimated up to 80 mph for nearly 30 minutes. The wind damage encompassed over 50 square miles in central and northeast Frontier County, in an area from east of Stockville and west of West Canyon Road to the south and west of Eustis. The high winds produced damage at 12 farmsteads. The most extensive damage just north of County Road 741, where two large metal buildings and nine 10 to 15 thousand bushel silos were destroyed. The wind damage included roofs of homes and outbuildings, windows blown out, over 60 center pivot irrigation systems overturned, large tree limbs down and livestock killed. The strong winds took down power lines and snapped 40 power poles, where the McCook Public Power District reported 173 consumers lost power.
May 2019Tornado (EF3)Stockville$100,000The tornado touched down 8 miles northeast of Stockville. It traveled northeast striking a farmstead 10 miles northeast of Stockville. Two buildings were destroyed with extensive damage to multiple structures at this farmstead.
June 2000HailStockville$50,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindStockville$35,000Thunderstorm winds blew over a center pivot irrigation system 3 miles north of Medicine Creek Dam.
May 2008Flash FloodStockville$25,000Flash flooding was reported by the National Weather Service cooperative observer 9 miles south of Curtis. Heavy rains fell on already saturated ground leading to increased runoff and flash flooding of fields and gravel roads.
June 2002HailStockville$15,000no account filed
May 2019Tornado (EF2)Stockville$12,000Tornado rolled numerous hay bales across a road and into ditches. Twelve power poles were also snapped.
June 2002HailStockville$12,000The corn was stripped by the hail.
July 2000Flash FloodStockville$10,0006-10 inches of water over roads in SW Frontier county.
May 1998HailStockville$10,000A thunderstorm dropped up to two inch diameter hail which caused damage to crops and property.
April 2008HailStockville$10,000no account filed
May 1999HailStockville$9,000no account filed
June 2003LightningStockville$8,000Lightning struck a tree near the Frontier County Courthouse and blew the tree apart. A 12 foot section of the tree was thrown 67 feet where 2 feet of it stuck in the ground. The lightning strike also knocked out the computer system in the courthouse.
May 1998HailStockville$8,000Hail as large as tennis balls caused significant damage to crops and property east of Stockville.
May 1998HailStockville$7,000no account filed
June 2003Tornado (F0)Stockville$5,000The tornado made a brief touchdown which snapped off a couple of power poles.
July 2009HailStockville$5,000no account filed
June 2008HailStockville$5,000no account filed
June 2006HailStockville$5,000no account filed
June 2003HailStockville$5,000no account filed
May 1998HailStockville$5,000no account filed
June 2002HailStockville$4,000no account filed
May 1998HailStockville$3,000no account filed
June 1999HailStockville$2,000In addition to the hail, large tree limbs were reported blown down 4 miles west of Stockville and 3 miles southeast of Maywood.
April 2003HailStockville$2,000no account filed
June 2008HailStockville$1,500no account filed
June 2008HailStockville$1,500no account filed
May 2006HailStockville$1,200no account filed
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Stockville$1,000Several 1400 pound hay bales were rolled into two fence lines damaging numerous posts.
June 2000HailStockville$1,000Tree damage.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindStockville$1,000Tree damage.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindStockville$1,000Tree limbs down.
May 1998HailStockville$1,000Baseball size hail destroyed 160 acres of wheat and broke out windows in a house.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindStockville-Measured on a home weather station.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindStockville-A thunderstorm wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet at this location.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindStockville-Thunderstorm wind gusts, estimated at 65 MPH, were reported at this location.
July 2019Flash FloodStockville-The river gauge MCAN1 on Medicine Creek near Stockville rose 9 feet in one hour. The level was 3.5 feet above flood stage.
July 2019Flash FloodStockville-Law enforcement reports water over several streets in Stockville.
May 2019HailStockville-Time estimated from radar.
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Stockville-Tornado briefly touched down twisting a large cedar tree and broke large tree limbs.
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Stockville-Brief touchdown in an open field. No damage reported.
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Stockville-Tornado briefly touched down in an open field just northwest of Stockville. No damage occurred.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindStockville-Thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 60 MPH at this location. No damage reported.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindStockville-Wind gusts estimated at 60 MPH at this location along with 0.20 inches of rain.
May 2016Tornado (EF0)Stockville-Brief tornado touchdown in an open field with no damage reported.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindStockville-Report of pea size hail along with trees bending over from the wind.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindStockville-Small hail was reported along with the high wind gust.
July 2015HailStockville-In addition to quarter sized hail, thunderstorm wind gusts of 40 to 50 MPH were reported at this location.
July 2015HailStockville-In addition to quarter sized hail, thunderstorm wind gusts of 40 to 50 MPH were estimated at this location.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindStockville-Public reports wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph and quarter size hail. Corn crop was stripped due to wind driven hail.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindStockville-Cooperative observer in Stockville estimated winds in excess of 60 mph with several tree limbs down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindStockville-Tree limbs downed by thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2011HailStockville-Frontier county emergency manager reported golf ball sized hail in Stockville.
May 2011Flash FloodStockville-Flash flooding conditions were observed at the Medicine Creek gauge upstream of Harry Strunk Lake. The river gauge rose quickly ranging from near 4.8 feet at 8 p.m. on May 24th to a maximum of 14.49 feet at 2 a.m. on the 25th as runoff increased. Cooperative observers reported rainfall amounts from 1.50 inches to over 3 inches from the event.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindStockville-The public reported winds downed tree branches at least 4 inches in diameter.
May 2008Tornado (EF0)Stockville-A storm chaser reported a brief tornado touchdown over open rangeland.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindStockville-Winds of at least 60 mph broke off 6 to 10 inch diameter tree limbs.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindStockville-Thunderstorm winds pushed 2 grain trailers 5 to 7 feet and broke numerous 6 to 10 inch diameter tree limbs.
June 2005HailStockville-The hailstones damaged shingles on a home.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindStockville-Large tree limbs were snapped off at a farmstead.

Every storm recorded in Frontier 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
Freedom7.5 miles8
Orafino8.5 miles7
Curtis9.7 miles8
Moorefield10.9 miles11
Maywood15.3 miles8
Quick15.4 miles7
Eustis20.8 miles10

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 StockvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2648039The 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 833836. 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.