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.
Population over time
2 figuresOakdale 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 322 | |
| 2020 | 276 | -46 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1955 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Oakdale quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Norfolk quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 2005Regional 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 70 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 2 April 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 8 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 15 February 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 November 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1,000 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 January 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
42 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | Hail | Oakdale | - | Public report of hail measured at 1 inch in diameter. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakdale | - | Emergency manager reported significant damage to a fertilizer plant. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakdale | - | Public reported larger lawn furniture blown around and small branches broken on trees. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Oakdale | - | With temperatures below freezing, the hail was accompanied by freezing rain and sleet. |
| October 2013 | Hail | Oakdale | - | Hail started at dime size and grew to as large as half dollar size hail that covered the ground. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Oakdale | - | 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 2011 | Heavy Rain | Oakdale | - | Rainfall of 1.61 inches fell in 45 minutes. The heavy rain produced some brief minor flooding. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Oakdale | - | Hail up to quarter-size lasted for about 15 minutes in the Oakdale area. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakdale | - | A cooperative observer in the Oakdale area estimated thunderstorm wind gusts reached around 60 mph. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakdale | - | 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 2006 | Hail | Oakdale | - | Hail estimated at up to 1 inch in diameter caused severe crop damage around the Oakdale area. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakdale | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph was reported in the Oakdale area. The winds were accompanied by hail up to baseball size. |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakdale | - | 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 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakdale | - | 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 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakdale | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of around 70 mph was reported by a law enforcement official. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakdale | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at between 70 and 80 mph took tree tops off in the Oakdale area. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakdale | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph downed 2 trees 2 miles south of Oakdale. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Oakdale | - | Golfball size hail reported by law enforcement 6 miles south of Oakdale. |
| July 2000 | Flash Flood | Oakdale | - | Flash flooding due to heavy rain brought a 20 to 30 foot wide river of water across a road south of Oakdale. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakdale | - | Strong winds uprooted numerous trees. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Oakdale | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Oakdale | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Oakdale | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Oakdale | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Oakdale | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Oakdale | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Oakdale | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Oakdale | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Oakdale | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Oakdale | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Oakdale | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Oakdale | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Oakdale | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Oakdale | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Oakdale | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Oakdale | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Oakdale | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Oakdale | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Oakdale | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Oakdale | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Oakdale | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Hail | Oakdale | - | 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 Oakdale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2169791 | 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 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.




