Sunol is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
and
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
in
Cheyenne County,
Nebraska
Nebraska ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Ka ...
, United States. As of the
2010 census it had a population of 73.
Sunol is located in the valley of
Lodgepole Creek on
U.S. routes 30 and
385
Year 385 (Roman numerals, CCCLXXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Arcadius, Augustus and Bauto (or, less frequently, year 1138 ''Ab urbe condita''). The ...
, east of
Sidney, the county seat.
Interstate 80
Interstate 80 (I-80) is an east–west transcontinental freeway that crosses the United States from San Francisco, California, to Teaneck, New Jersey, in the New York metropolitan area. The highway was designated in 1956 as one of the ori ...
is to the south via
Nebraska Link 17E.
History
Sunol was
plat
In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Survey System, Public Lands Surveys to ...
ted in 1909. A post office was established at Sunol in 1910, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1973.
Demographics
References
Census-designated places in Cheyenne County, Nebraska
Census-designated places in Nebraska
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