Elsie, Nebraska
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in District 1. It lies in ZIP code area 69134. The Survey maps it on the Elsie quadrangle. 102 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,389 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresElsie fell from 106 to 102 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 106 | |
| 2020 | 102 | -4 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS McCook quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Elsie quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Imperial quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
53 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elsie in 53 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 40 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2009 | Hail | Elsie | $60,000 | Wind driven hail destroyed wheat and corn crops and severely damaged center pivot irrigation systems. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elsie | $35,000 | Strong winds overturned center pivot irrigation systems and damaged crops. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Elsie | $10,000 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Elsie | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Elsie | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elsie | $2,000 | Thunderstorm wind uprooted trees and picked up and smashed a grain bin. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elsie | $1,000 | Small tree snapped off. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elsie | $1,000 | Large tree limbs were broken, a fertilizer tank was overturned, and outbuildings were damaged. |
| February 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elsie | - | Personal weather station. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elsie | - | Thunderstorm wind gust. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Elsie | - | Public reported golf ball size hail northeast of Elsie. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elsie | - | A personal weather station measured a 73 mph wind gust near Elsie. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elsie | - | An automated weather station measured 64 mph wind gust. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Elsie | - | The general public reported quarter size hail, 5 miles north of Elsie. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elsie | - | No significant damage reported from this wind gust. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elsie | - | Thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 60 MPH. |
| October 2016 | Hail | Elsie | - | Hail covering the ground with largest diameter one inch. |
| October 2016 | Hail | Elsie | - | Hail covered the road but was sub-severe in maximum size. Minor street flooding was also reported. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Elsie | - | Ping pong ball sized hail along with heavy rain reported north of Elsie. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elsie | - | Damaging winds to 60 mph downed large tree limbs. |
| July 2005 | Hail | Elsie | - | Hail stripped leaves off corn stalks in a garden. |
| May 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Elsie | - | A small tornado touched down for two to four minutes in open country. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Elsie | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Elsie | - | 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 Elsie | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3287969 | 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 829099. 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.
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.




