1 Concrete Leveling Contractors in Stromsburg, Nebraska

If you need concrete leveling in Stromsburg, the usual culprits are deep Peoria-Bignell Loess wind-deposit mantle with Hastings-Holdrege loess-derived silty-clay-loam subgrades, Crete loess-flat clay shrink-swell, Fillmore closed-depression playa hydrology with seasonal saturation cycling on Rainwater Basin parcels, native-brick-construction historic-downtown parcels with century-and-a-half-old foundations from the 1880s brickyard era, irrigation-pivot saturation cycling on heavy corn parcels, and the documented former-brickyard-pit parcels with backfill-related variability. Stromsburg is a city in southwestern Polk County, central Nebraska, sitting along NE-92 and US-81 about 12 miles south of Osceola and 30 miles north of York. The community was settled in the 1860s by a group of Swedish immigrants from Ockelbo, Sweden, who came via several years in Illinois under the leadership of real estate agent Lewis Headstrom; the settlers formed what would become Stromsburg, named after a section of Ockelbo, Sweden. The town was platted in 1872, with the name combining the last syllable of Headstrom's name with "burg" (Swedish for "village on the hill"). The Omaha & Republican Valley Railroad (a Union Pacific branch) reached Stromsburg in 1879, giving the community a major boost; by the 1880s two brickyards were in operation, and many native-brick buildings still stand, including the Viking Center (originally the Opera House), the Cornerstone Bank, and several homes. Governor Frank B. Morrison designated Stromsburg the "Swede Capital of Nebraska" at the Swedish Festival in 1966; the Stromsburg Midsommar Swedish Festival is held every June. In the 2000 census 30 percent of Stromsburg residents claimed Swedish ancestry. Stromsburg sits on the loess-mantled tableland between the Big Blue River drainage to the south and the Platte River valley to the north. Bedrock is principally Cretaceous Pierre Shale at depth, with the Tertiary Ogallala Group (Pliocene unconsolidated gravel, sand, silt, clay with locally cemented caliche layers) immediately overlying Pierre and supporting the High Plains (Ogallala) Aquifer. Above bedrock, Late Pleistocene Peoria Loess and overlying Holocene Bignell Loess mantle the uplands, with Quaternary alluvium flooring the small stream valleys tributary to the Big Blue. Local soils include Hastings silty clay loam on the loess uplands, Holdrege silt loam on the loess uplands, Crete silty clay loam on the loess flats, Hord silt loam on the loess-mantled benches, Hall silt loam on the loess benches, Fillmore silt loam on the closed depressions and playas, Butler silt loam on the upland flats, and silty alluvium along the small stream corridors. Between deep Peoria-Bignell Loess wind-deposit mantle with Hastings-Holdrege loess-derived silty-clay-loam subgrades, Crete loess-flat clay shrink-swell, Fillmore closed-depression playa hydrology with seasonal saturation cycling on Rainwater Basin parcels, native-brick-construction historic-downtown parcels with century-and-a-half-old foundations from the 1880s brickyard era, irrigation-pivot saturation cycling on heavy corn parcels, and the documented former-brickyard-pit parcels with backfill-related variability, subgrade behavior is the primary driver of slab movement here.