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.
Population over time
2 figuresNenzel 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 20 | |
| 2020 | 17 | -3 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1950 USGS Cody quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Valentine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Valentine quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Cody quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Nenzel quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Cody quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2012Regional 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 burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 31 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
25 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nenzel | $50,000 | Public estimated winds gusted to 80 mph for up to 45 minutes. Power lines were down in the Nenzel area. |
| August 2006 | Hail | Nenzel | $8,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Nenzel | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nenzel | $1,000 | Four inch diameter tree limbs downed along with hail caused garden damage at this location. Time estimated from radar. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Nenzel | - | A trained weather spotter reported quarter size hail southwest of Nenzel. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Nenzel | - | A trained weather spotter reported golf ball size hail southwest of Nenzel. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Nenzel | - | Quarter and nickle sized hail reported. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nenzel | - | General public estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 55 to 60 mph along with pea size hail. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Nenzel | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Hail | Nenzel | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Hail | Nenzel | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Hail | Nenzel | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Hail | Nenzel | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | Nenzel | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Nenzel | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Nenzel | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Nenzel | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Nenzel | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Nenzel | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Nenzel | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Nenzel | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nenzel | - | no account filed |
| September 2009 | Hail | Nenzel | - | no account filed |
| September 2009 | Hail | Nenzel | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Nenzel | - | 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 Nenzel | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2499564 | 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 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.





