Enders, Nebraska
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Imperial Rural precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69027. The Survey maps it on the Enders quadrangle. 37 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,150 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresEnders fell from 42 to 37 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 | 42 | |
| 2020 | 37 | -5 (-12%) |
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 Enders quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Benkelman quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
13 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Enders between 2014 and 2020, burning about 192 acres in total. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 August 2014 | Natural | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 25 July 2015 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 July 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 17 July 2020 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 July 2020 | Natural | 170 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
26 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Enders in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 18 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enders | $90,000 | A metal roof was torn off a building in Wauneta, center pivot irrigation systems were overturned, and mature trees were snapped off. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Enders | $25,000 | The hail damaged roofs, tore holes in the siding of homes, and damaged vehicle bodies. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Enders | $15,000 | Vehicles, and corn and wheat crops were damaged by the hail. |
| August 2004 | Hail | Enders | $8,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Enders | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enders | $1,000 | Outflow winds from thunderstorms uprooted and broke off trees and destroyed an outbuilding. |
| August 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Enders | $1,000 | The tornado touched down only briefly in open rangeland. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enders | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 85 MPH with areas of blowing dust. Time estimated from radar. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Enders | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall for over two hours as storms moved slowly northeast. Law enforcement reported water running over the old Wauneta road and other county roads northwest of Wauneta. In addition, storm total rainfall was estimated near 4 inches with the Cooperative Observer at Imperial, Nebraska reporting 2.75 inches. |
| April 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Enders | - | A supercell produced two weak tornadoes that touched down briefly in open rangeland. |
| April 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Enders | - | A trained spotter reported two weak tornadoes that touched down briefly in open rangeland. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enders | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs. Three-quarter inch hail was also reported. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Enders | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs. Three-quarter inch hail was also reported. |
| September 2025 | Hail | Enders | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Enders | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Enders | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Enders | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Enders | - | no account filed |
| October 2013 | Hail | Enders | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Enders | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Enders | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Enders | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Enders | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Enders | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Enders | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Enders | - | 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 Enders | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4164545 | 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 829124. 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.




