Sunol, Nebraska
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lodgepole precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69149. The Survey maps it on the Sunol quadrangle. 57 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,930 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSunol fell from 73 to 57 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 | 73 | |
| 2020 | 57 | -16 (-22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1899 USGS Sidney quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Scottsbluff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Sunol quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Chappell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
28 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sunol in 28 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 19 hail, 4 flash flood, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Sunol | $30,000 | One county police car lost when flood waters quickly covered road. |
| July 2001 | Hail | Sunol | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sunol | - | Sunol UPR site gusted 63mph. |
| October 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sunol | - | Mesonet station UP252 (8.1 W Lodgepole) reported a severe wind gust with the storm. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Sunol | - | Received report on social media. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sunol | - | Union Pacific Railroad mesonet station UP252 - SUNOL1 reported wind gust 8 miles west of Lodgepole, NE. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Sunol | - | Quarter size hail was reported near Sunol. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Sunol | - | Golf ball size was reported southwest of Lodgepole. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Sunol | - | Quarter to ping pong ball size hail was reported along Interstate 80 east of Sidney. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Sunol | - | Quarter sized hail was reported in Sunol. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Sunol | - | Hail 1.5 to 2 inches deep along Highway 30. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sunol | - | Wind sensor attached to emergency manager vehicle. |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Sunol | - | Water up to 6 inches deep over two county roads. |
| September 2006 | Flash Flood | Sunol | - | Minor flooding reported along Cow Creek with parts of county roads 139 and 16 flooded. |
| June 2004 | Hail | Sunol | - | Hail 1.00 to 1.75 inch reported in Sunol, NE. |
| September 2004 | Hail | Sunol | - | Mostly 1/2 to 1 inch diameter hail. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Sunol | - | 1 inch hail fell 6 miles south of Sunol, NE |
| July 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Sunol | - | Severe thunderstorms moved southeast through Cheyenne County during the afternoon. Hail from the thunderstorms destroyed or damaged 55,615 acres of cropland, causing millions of dollars in losses. The worst damage was in the northwest part of the county as well as just southeast of Sidney. One area of hail began nine miles west of Dalton and cut a two mile wide path for eight to ten miles. Also, A brief tornado was observed near the state line, 10 miles south of Sunol. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Sunol | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Sunol | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Sunol | - | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Hail | Sunol | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Sunol | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | Sunol | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Sunol | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Sunol | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Sunol | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Sunol | - | 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 Sunol | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4166141 | 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 833941. 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.




