Welcome to Sunrise ...

So far, we found very little information about Sunrise. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Sunrise to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Sunrise - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Sunrise, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Sunrise , we believe that it would have been located within present day Merrick County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Sunrise, you might consider that their post office opened in 1899.

Time Zone: The area where Sunrise was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Sunrise would have been located in the (308) area code.

Communities Also Named Sunrise ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 41 communities that are also named Sunrise - they are located in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida (3), Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana (2), Maryland (3), Minnesota, Mississippi (2), Missouri (2), North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma (2), Pennsylvania (2), Tennessee (4), Texas (4), Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Sunrise.

Adding Sunrise to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Sunrise in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Sunrise was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Sunrise post office opened in 1899.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Sunrise.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for State of Nebraska: www.nebraska.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Sunrise, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Nebraska's counties, including Merrick, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/