Ellis, Nebraska

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68310. The Survey maps it on the Harbine quadrangle. It stands 1,434 feet above sea level.

Ellis within Gage County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1955 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Harbine quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Beatrice quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

38 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Ellis between 2007 and 2020, burning about 379 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Fireworks	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
2 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
27 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	SW75 AND SCOTT RD
19 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
19 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
8 July 2011	Natural	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
2 July 2009	Fireworks	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
14 July 2009	Natural	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
17 June 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gage County

Storms near this place

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellis in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellis	$250,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at over 70 mph caused widespread tree damage and farm outbuilding damage from south through east of the Beatrice area. The winds were associated with a bow echo that moved across the Beatrice area. A tornado spun up on the north end of the echo causing more significant damage north through northeast of Beatrice. Especially hard hit with damage from thunderstorm winds was the Rockford Lake State Recreation area, where 6 to 8 campers were blown over and cabin and tree damage was quite substantial. Emergency management estimated that the tornado and straight line winds caused at least a million dollars worth of damage.
April 2026	Hail	Ellis	-	Trained spotter report of hail measured up to 1.50 inches in diameter near Harbine, NE.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellis	-	Emergency Management reported a 72 miles per hour wind gust that was recorded northeast of Harbine.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellis	-	A personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 60 mph.
March 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellis	-	The Emergency Manager reported that grain bins were destroyed, and there was light damage to 4 nearby farmsteads.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellis	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph downed trees and caused some building damage from near Ellis toward the west side of Beatrice. The winds were accompanied by very heavy rain which caused some minor street flooding in Beatrice.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellis	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 70 mph downed trees south of Ellis. Reported by Emergency Management.

Every storm recorded in Gage 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hoag	7.2 miles	11
Beatrice	7.6 miles	11
Glenover	7.6 miles	11
Holmesville	11.6 miles	10
Odell	12.2 miles	10
Krider	12.3 miles	10
Blue Springs	12.7 miles	10
Wymore	13.1 miles	10

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 Ellis	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17560881	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 829069. 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.