Way Side Stock Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Richardson County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 64480 718 Rd., Stella, 68442
When was it listed? March 2015
Category. building
Precinct. West Muddy precinct
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 15000090 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Way Side Stock Farm between 2002 and 2015, burning about 62 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 burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
26 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
31 July 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
16 April 2009	Debris and open burning	60 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
13 March 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
19 January 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Richardson County

Storms near this property

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stella, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 8 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 1997	Lightning	Stella	$60,000	Lightning struck a roof of a home and caused a fire.
April 2024	Hail	Stella	-	The office received a public report of golf ball sized hail.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Stella	-	One carport was lifted onto a house, another carport blown into the trees. One 20 inch diameter tree was snapped. Several trees uprooted.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Stella	-	Large tree branches and small hail was reported approximately 5 miles west of Stella.
September 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Stella	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph downed many very large tree limbs blocking east-west travel on Highway 62 in Stella. The winds also ripped shingles off of some roofs and was accompanied by small hail. Grain bins and corn and bean fields suffered damage north of town.
July 2008	Heavy Rain	Stella	-	A spotter reported 2.8 inches of rain in Stella.
September 2015	Hail	Stella	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Stella	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Stella	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Stella	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Stella	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Stella	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Stella	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Richardson County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	R.A. Clark House	2.1 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000090 in Record Group 79.
Richardson County	All 11 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.