Nelleva is an unincorporated community in Brazos County, in the U.S. state of Texas.

[1] According to the Handbook of Texas, no population estimates were available for the community in 2000.

Only the houses remained in Nelleva in 1980 and continued to be listed on county maps in 1992.

[2] The Mexia-Nelleva Cutoff was built to shorten the distance between it and Mexia in 1905.

Nelleva is located at the intersection of Farm to Market Road 2154 and another rural road on the Southern Pacific Railroad, 22 mi (35 km) southeast of Bryan in the southeastern corner of Brazos County.