Sunol is an unincorporated community and census designated place in Cheyenne County, in the Lodgepole Creek valley of western Nebraska. It lies roughly eleven miles east of Sidney, the county seat, on U.S. Routes 30 and 385, with Interstate 80 about three miles to the south. The census counted 57 people there in 2020.
The written record is thin. A post office opened in 1910 and ran until 1973. In the early 1920s the place worked as a wheat shipping point on the Lincoln Highway, with a bank, a few stores and a garage; the 1920 shipment came to 106 rail cars.
Sunol has no municipal government of its own and is tracked by the Census Bureau only as a designated place. It keeps Mountain Time, unlike most of Nebraska, which is one small sign of how far west it sits. The small downtown is on the north side of Highway 30, and the broad Lodgepole valley runs east from there toward Lodgepole and Chappell. Sidney, with the county offices and most services, is a short drive west.
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Sunol is a small unincorporated community in the Lodgepole Creek valley, about 11 miles east of Sidney along US-30/US-385, platted in 1909 with a post office that operated from 1910 to 1973.
In its early-20th-century heyday as a stop on the Lincoln Highway, Sunol was a genuine small commercial center with banking, retail, and garage services — in 1920 alone it shipped 106 railcars of wheat worth roughly $250,000. The origin of the town's name has not been definitively documented.