Orella, Nebraska

Orella was formerly a town in Sioux County, Nebraska, United States, along the BNSF Railway Butte Subdivision.

In 1889, the railroad crested Crawford Hill and entered the area and established a water station and telegraph office in Adelia.

After World War II, the economic boom allowed many to leave rural Orella for population centers.

The final blows came as the U.S. Army began scaling back employment and operations at the Black Hills Ordnance Depot in the 1950s.

The last permanent residents of Orella were John and Mable Carnahan, who lived in a home they built on the east side of the tracks in 1923.