Eli, Nebraska
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Cody precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69218. The Survey maps it on the Eli quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1952 USGS Eli quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Valentine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Valentine quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Cody quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Eli quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Cody quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Eli in 2019, burning under an acre 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 March 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
44 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eli in 44 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 35 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Eli | $39,000 | An extended period of rainfall resulted in flash flooding along Calf Creek located in Southwest Cherry county as runoff increased. Storm total precipitation for the period indicated 7.1 inches of rainfall on the North Platte radar. The public reported a total of 7 inches with several culverts washed out. |
| June 2003 | Hail | Eli | $20,000 | Golf ball size hail covered the ground. |
| June 2003 | Hail | Eli | $8,000 | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Eli | $4,000 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eli | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts, estimated at 60 MPH, were reported at this location along with pea sized hail. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eli | - | Thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph reported at this location. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eli | - | Public estimated 60 mph wind gusts south of Eli. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Eli | - | A trained weather spotter reported tennis ball size hail south of Eli. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Eli | - | Broken windows on the south side of the house. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eli | - | Along with thunderstorm wind gusts hail up to the size of nickles was reported. |
| August 2012 | Hail | Eli | - | The hail was driven by winds estimated at 50 to 60 mph. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eli | - | General public reported thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 50 to 60 mph. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Eli | - | The streets were white with nickel and dime size hail with an occasional quarter size hail. |
| June 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Eli | - | There was a brief touchdown of a weak tornado from a supercell thunderstorm. The tornado touched down over open rangeland. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Heavy Rain | Eli | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eli | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Eli | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Eli | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18150322 | The 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 829048. 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.





