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Nenzel, Nebraska

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Nenzel precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69219. The Survey maps it on the Nenzel quadrangle. 17 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,114 feet above sea level.

Nenzel within Cherry County

Population over time

2 figures

Nenzel fell from 20 to 17 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.

YearPeople Change
201020
202017-3 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Nenzel between 2012 and 2017, burning about 32 acres 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
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
1 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 April 2017Debris and open burning31 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherry County

Storms near this place

25 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nenzel in 25 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 21 hail, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2011Thunderstorm WindNenzel$50,000Public estimated winds gusted to 80 mph for up to 45 minutes. Power lines were down in the Nenzel area.
August 2006HailNenzel$8,000no account filed
July 2003HailNenzel$3,000no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindNenzel$1,000Four inch diameter tree limbs downed along with hail caused garden damage at this location. Time estimated from radar.
July 2020HailNenzel-A trained weather spotter reported quarter size hail southwest of Nenzel.
July 2020HailNenzel-A trained weather spotter reported golf ball size hail southwest of Nenzel.
May 2016HailNenzel-Quarter and nickle sized hail reported.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindNenzel-General public estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 55 to 60 mph along with pea size hail.
May 2025HailNenzel-no account filed
July 2025HailNenzel-no account filed
July 2025HailNenzel-no account filed
July 2025HailNenzel-no account filed
July 2025HailNenzel-no account filed
August 2020HailNenzel-no account filed
June 2019HailNenzel-no account filed
June 2018HailNenzel-no account filed
May 2016HailNenzel-no account filed
June 2012HailNenzel-no account filed
June 2010HailNenzel-no account filed
June 2010HailNenzel-no account filed
June 2010HailNenzel-no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindNenzel-no account filed
September 2009HailNenzel-no account filed
September 2009HailNenzel-no account filed
June 1997HailNenzel-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
Cody7.5 miles9
Kilgore7.8 miles9
Crookston18.6 miles9
Eli20.6 miles8
Doughboy23.6 miles9
Valentine29.5 miles10
Simeon29.7 miles9
Kennedy30.3 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 NenzelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2499564The 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 831591. 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.