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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.

Sunol within Cheyenne County

Population over time

2 figures

Sunol 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.

YearPeople Change
201073
202057-16 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

Storms near this place

28 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2010Flash FloodSunol$30,000One county police car lost when flood waters quickly covered road.
July 2001HailSunol$25,000no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindSunol-Sunol UPR site gusted 63mph.
October 2025Thunderstorm WindSunol-Mesonet station UP252 (8.1 W Lodgepole) reported a severe wind gust with the storm.
June 2022HailSunol-Received report on social media.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindSunol-Union Pacific Railroad mesonet station UP252 - SUNOL1 reported wind gust 8 miles west of Lodgepole, NE.
April 2015HailSunol-Quarter size hail was reported near Sunol.
June 2013HailSunol-Golf ball size was reported southwest of Lodgepole.
June 2013HailSunol-Quarter to ping pong ball size hail was reported along Interstate 80 east of Sidney.
June 2012HailSunol-Quarter sized hail was reported in Sunol.
June 2011HailSunol-Hail 1.5 to 2 inches deep along Highway 30.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSunol-Wind sensor attached to emergency manager vehicle.
May 2007Flash FloodSunol-Water up to 6 inches deep over two county roads.
September 2006Flash FloodSunol-Minor flooding reported along Cow Creek with parts of county roads 139 and 16 flooded.
June 2004HailSunol-Hail 1.00 to 1.75 inch reported in Sunol, NE.
September 2004HailSunol-Mostly 1/2 to 1 inch diameter hail.
May 1999HailSunol-1 inch hail fell 6 miles south of Sunol, NE
July 1995Tornado (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 2021HailSunol-no account filed
May 2021HailSunol-no account filed
May 2021HailSunol-no account filed
May 2020HailSunol-no account filed
July 2019HailSunol-no account filed
June 2011Flash FloodSunol-no account filed
June 2010HailSunol-no account filed
May 2005HailSunol-no account filed
June 2005HailSunol-no account filed
June 2005HailSunol-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cheyenne 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
Colton5.0 miles11
Lodgepole6.8 miles11
Sidney11.4 miles11
Huntsman12.0 miles11
Gurley15.9 miles11
Lorenzo17.8 miles8
Brownson18.7 miles8
Ordville (historical)18.7 miles8

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 SunolAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4166141The 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.