Enola, Nebraska
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Union precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68748. The Survey maps it on the Enola quadrangle. It stands 1,696 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Enola quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Stanton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
12 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Enola between 2007 and 2020, burning about 90 acres in total. 1 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 | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 17 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 July 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 27 June 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 May 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 23 April 2020 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Enola in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind. 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 2023 | Hail | Enola | - | Public reported via mPING 1-inch hail. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Enola | - | Public reported via social media 1-inch hail. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enola | - | Trained spotter estimated peak wind gust of 60 mph. |
| October 2020 | Hail | Enola | - | Public reported 1.3 inch sized hail. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enola | - | Public personal weather station reported 75 MPH wind. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enola | - | Empty grain bins were blown over by damaging winds 7 miles north of Madison. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enola | - | There were 3 center pivots reported blown over by the strong winds. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enola | - | Strong winds destroyed a farm building. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Enola | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Enola | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Enola | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Enola | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warnerville | 4.0 miles | 9 | |
| Madison | 5.2 miles | 9 | |
| Fairview (historical) | 6.3 miles | 9 | |
| Norfolk | 8.9 miles | 10 | |
| Battle Creek | 9.8 miles | 9 | |
| Kalamazoo | 10.7 miles | 9 | |
| Emerick | 14.5 miles | 9 | |
| Meadow Grove | 16.8 miles | 9 |
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 Enola | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18152515 | 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 829138. 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.




