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Oakdale, Nebraska

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Oakdale Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68761. The Survey maps it on the Oakdale quadrangle. 276 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,716 feet above sea level.

Oakdale within Antelope County

Population over time

2 figures

Oakdale fell from 322 to 276 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
2010322
2020276-46 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

8 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Oakdale between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,102 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
24 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use70 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 April 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 February 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 November 2010Debris and open burning1,000 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 January 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Antelope County

Storms near this place

42 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakdale in 42 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 29 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
August 2025HailOakdale-Public report of hail measured at 1 inch in diameter.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindOakdale-Emergency manager reported significant damage to a fertilizer plant.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindOakdale-Public reported larger lawn furniture blown around and small branches broken on trees.
April 2013HailOakdale-With temperatures below freezing, the hail was accompanied by freezing rain and sleet.
October 2013HailOakdale-Hail started at dime size and grew to as large as half dollar size hail that covered the ground.
May 2012HailOakdale-Most of the hail was around golf ball-size, but a few were around tennis ball-size. The hail broke car and building windows and caused other siding and roof damage in the area.
June 2011Heavy RainOakdale-Rainfall of 1.61 inches fell in 45 minutes. The heavy rain produced some brief minor flooding.
August 2011HailOakdale-Hail up to quarter-size lasted for about 15 minutes in the Oakdale area.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindOakdale-A cooperative observer in the Oakdale area estimated thunderstorm wind gusts reached around 60 mph.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindOakdale-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 to 70 mph downed large tree limbs in town and caused a storage building at a lumber yard to partially collapse.
June 2006HailOakdale-Hail estimated at up to 1 inch in diameter caused severe crop damage around the Oakdale area.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindOakdale-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph was reported in the Oakdale area. The winds were accompanied by hail up to baseball size.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindOakdale-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph downed 4 inch tree limbs in town. Shingles and a few metal roof sections were torn off some buildings and even a few vehicles were reportedly blown off the road. The winds were accompanied by hail up to golfball size.
September 2004Thunderstorm WindOakdale-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph by a cooperative observer blew down a few trees southwest of Oakdale, one of which had a trunk 12 inches in diameter.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindOakdale-A thunderstorm wind gust of around 70 mph was reported by a law enforcement official.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindOakdale-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at between 70 and 80 mph took tree tops off in the Oakdale area.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindOakdale-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph downed 2 trees 2 miles south of Oakdale.
May 2000HailOakdale-Golfball size hail reported by law enforcement 6 miles south of Oakdale.
July 2000Flash FloodOakdale-Flash flooding due to heavy rain brought a 20 to 30 foot wide river of water across a road south of Oakdale.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindOakdale-Strong winds uprooted numerous trees.
July 2015HailOakdale-no account filed
August 2015HailOakdale-no account filed
June 2014HailOakdale-no account filed
April 2012HailOakdale-no account filed
August 2011HailOakdale-no account filed
August 2011HailOakdale-no account filed
June 2009HailOakdale-no account filed
June 2008HailOakdale-no account filed
June 2008HailOakdale-no account filed
June 2008HailOakdale-no account filed
August 2007HailOakdale-no account filed
March 2006HailOakdale-no account filed
April 2005HailOakdale-no account filed
September 2005HailOakdale-no account filed
April 2004HailOakdale-no account filed
June 2004HailOakdale-no account filed
May 2003HailOakdale-no account filed
July 2001HailOakdale-no account filed
May 2000HailOakdale-no account filed
May 2000HailOakdale-no account filed
June 1997HailOakdale-no account filed
August 1995HailOakdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Antelope 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
Neligh5.2 miles10
Elgin8.5 miles10
Clearwater13.5 miles10
Brunswick18.5 miles9
Royal19.9 miles10
Orchard23.4 miles10

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 OakdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2169791The 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 831818. 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.