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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.

Oneida within Nemaha County

Population over time

2 figures

Oneida 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.

YearPeople Change
201075
202061-14 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

Fires near this place

4 since 2015

Regional 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 May 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreNemaha County02017-6
7 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service02015-6
28 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKansas Forest Service6
27 February 2016Smoking20 acresKansas Forest Service10

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nemaha County

Storms near this place

15 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2024Thunderstorm WindOneida-Personal weather station.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindOneida-Measured on a personal weather station.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindOneida-Winds from gust front ahead of storms.
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Oneida-A small, brief tornado occurred southwest of Oneida and damaged an outbuilding and one residence.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindOneida-Tree limbs up to 6 inches in diameter.
March 2009Tornado (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 2001Flash FloodOneida-Heavy rains caused flash flooding. Deer creek went out of its banks with flooding of nearby fields for a time.
April 2025HailOneida-no account filed
May 2019HailOneida-no account filed
August 2018HailOneida-no account filed
May 2013HailOneida-no account filed
September 2009HailOneida-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindOneida-no account filed
May 2001HailOneida-no account filed
June 2000HailOneida-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nemaha 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
Woodlawn6.8 miles17
Berwick6.9 miles17
Seneca6.9 miles14
Bern7.0 miles17
Sabetha7.8 miles17
Saint Benedict8.6 miles14
Capioma8.7 miles17
Kelly9.3 miles14

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 OneidaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2294628The 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.