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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.

Eli within Cherry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2019

Regional 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 use1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
18 March 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Cherry County

Storms near this place

44 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2001Flash FloodEli$39,000An 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 2003HailEli$20,000Golf ball size hail covered the ground.
June 2003HailEli$8,000no account filed
May 2002HailEli$4,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindEli-Thunderstorm wind gusts, estimated at 60 MPH, were reported at this location along with pea sized hail.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindEli-Thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph reported at this location.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindEli-Public estimated 60 mph wind gusts south of Eli.
July 2020HailEli-A trained weather spotter reported tennis ball size hail south of Eli.
June 2020HailEli-Broken windows on the south side of the house.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindEli-Along with thunderstorm wind gusts hail up to the size of nickles was reported.
August 2012HailEli-The hail was driven by winds estimated at 50 to 60 mph.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindEli-General public reported thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 50 to 60 mph.
May 2007HailEli-The streets were white with nickel and dime size hail with an occasional quarter size hail.
June 2006Tornado (F0)Eli-There was a brief touchdown of a weak tornado from a supercell thunderstorm. The tornado touched down over open rangeland.
June 2025HailEli-no account filed
June 2024HailEli-no account filed
June 2024HailEli-no account filed
May 2024HailEli-no account filed
May 2023HailEli-no account filed
June 2023HailEli-no account filed
July 2018HailEli-no account filed
May 2018HailEli-no account filed
June 2016HailEli-no account filed
June 2015HailEli-no account filed
July 2014HailEli-no account filed
August 2014HailEli-no account filed
August 2014HailEli-no account filed
June 2014HailEli-no account filed
June 2014HailEli-no account filed
June 2011HailEli-no account filed
June 2011HailEli-no account filed
June 2011HailEli-no account filed
June 2011HailEli-no account filed
June 2011HailEli-no account filed
June 2011HailEli-no account filed
June 2009Heavy RainEli-no account filed
June 2008HailEli-no account filed
July 2007HailEli-no account filed
May 2004HailEli-no account filed
May 2004HailEli-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindEli-no account filed
July 2000HailEli-no account filed
September 1997HailEli-no account filed
June 1996HailEli-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cherry County

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Merriman11.2 miles9
Cody13.1 miles9
Leat18.0 miles9
Nenzel20.6 miles9
Irwin25.0 miles9
Doughboy25.5 miles9
Bayonne28.0 miles9
Kilgore28.4 miles9

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 EliAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18150322The 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.