Oneida, Kansas
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Gilman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66522. The Survey maps it on the Oneida quadrangle. 61 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,230 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresOneida fell from 75 to 61 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 | 75 | |
| 2020 | 61 | -14 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1888 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Oneida quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Oneida between 2015 and 2017, burning about 22 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nemaha County | 02017-6 |
| 7 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 02015-6 |
| 28 February 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 6 |
| 27 February 2016 | Smoking | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 10 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oneida in 15 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oneida | - | Personal weather station. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oneida | - | Measured on a personal weather station. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oneida | - | Winds from gust front ahead of storms. |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Oneida | - | A small, brief tornado occurred southwest of Oneida and damaged an outbuilding and one residence. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oneida | - | Tree limbs up to 6 inches in diameter. |
| March 2009 | Tornado (EF1) | Oneida | - | The tornado touched down 3 miles west of Oneida at 6:33pm CDT. The tornado broke a power pole and tore the roof off a large hog confinement building. This tornado continued northeast for approximately 8.5 miles, and lifted just before crossing into Nebraska. Numerous homes and buildings were damaged along the path. The tornado lifted at 6:45pm CDT 5 miles northeast of Bern. Additional damage occurred across Nemaha County, specifically around Seneca, from strong straight line thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Oneida | - | Heavy rains caused flash flooding. Deer creek went out of its banks with flooding of nearby fields for a time. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Oneida | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Oneida | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Oneida | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Oneida | - | no account filed |
| September 2009 | Hail | Oneida | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oneida | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Oneida | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Oneida | - | 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 Oneida | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2294628 | 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 472960. 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.








