Oneida, Kentucky
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Oneida census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40972. It stands on Goose Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oneida quadrangle. 238 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 778 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresOneida fell from 410 to 238 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 | 410 | |
| 2020 | 238 | -172 (-42%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1891 USGS Manchester quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1953 USGS Oneida quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1977 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:100000
- 1979 USGS Oneida quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
151 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Oneida between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,939 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 56 were 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 | 58 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 56 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 26 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Daniel Boone National Forest | DRY |
| 4 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Daniel Boone National Forest | 4 CORNERS |
| 10 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Daniel Boone National Forest | CHAIR |
| 18 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | KUDZU |
| 4 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BUFFALO #2 |
| 1 May 2007 | Debris and open burning | 45 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 1 May 2007 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 1 May 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oneida in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 14 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 heavy rain, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2020 | Flood | Oneida | $120,000 | Dispatch reported water over Kentucky Highway 66 near Oneida, while several other communities and roads across Clay County were impacted by flood waters. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oneida | $25,000 | A few large trees and several large limbs were blown down. Corn was blown flat in a field and shingles were removed from some roofs in the area. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oneida | $7,000 | Several trees were blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts near Oneida on Highways 11, 1482, and 66. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oneida | $5,000 | Trees were down on Highway 11 near Goose Rock. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oneida | $5,000 | Trees were blown down in Oneida. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oneida | $5,000 | Trees were blown down. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oneida | $5,000 | Trees down on Highway 11 southwest of Oneida and near junction of Highways 421 and 11. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oneida | $3,000 | Trees were blown down in Oneida. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oneida | $3,000 | A tree that was blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts fell onto and downed a power line on Danger Branch Road off of KY Hwy 1482. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oneida | $1,000 | A tree was blown down in Oneida. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oneida | - | A tree was reported to have blown down onto 1st Street in Oneida. |
| January 2022 | Heavy Rain | Oneida | - | The cooperative observer in Oneida measured 3.69 inches of rainfall in a 48-hour period ending at 7am on January 2, 2022. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Oneida | - | An individual shared a picture of up to approximately quarter-sized hail on social media. |
| June 2021 | Heavy Rain | Oneida | - | The cooperative observer in Oneida measured 1.93 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oneida | - | A 61 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measure by a weather station at the Oneida Baptist Institute. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oneida | - | Couple of trees and large limbs down. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oneida | - | A tree was down. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oneida | - | Trees were blown down along Kentucky Highway 11. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Oneida | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | 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 Q7093650 | 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 514357. 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.





