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Oakland, Nebraska

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Oakland City. It lies in ZIP code area 68045. The Survey maps it on the Oakland quadrangle. 1,369 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,293 feet above sea level.

Oakland within Burt County

On record in Oakland

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Oakland grew from 1,244 to 1,369 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
20101,244
20201,369+125 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Oakland in 2011, burning about 30 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 burning1

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
11 April 2011Debris and open burning30 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burt County

Storms near this place

38 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakland in 38 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 15 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
May 2023Tornado (EF2)Oakland2 hurtThis tornado started around 620 PM near Burt County Road H, a little over 2 miles west of US Highway 77. The tornado started moving north northeast and then curved back to due north. As it moved north it gained strength and started destroying outbuildings and trees at various farmsteads, reaching EF-2 strength. By the time the tornado reached Burt County Road K, it became nearly 5/8 of a mile wide. Nearly a half mile span of double-wide wooden electrical transmission poles were snapped north of County Road L. The tornado, which was wrapped in rain, continued trekking to the north, damaging farmstead after farmstead, as well as uprooting and snapping trees. The tornado eventually weakened at 644 PM, 3 miles west of Lyons. Two people were injured by the tornado. One had a tree fall on a shed with the person inside, injuring his head. The other had cuts to the face from flying glass.
July 2000LightningOakland$30,000A lightning strike caused a considerable amount of damage to a house in Oakland.
July 2000LightningOakland$20,000A lightning strike started a fire in the basement of a house causing considerable damage to the basement and main floor. Smoke damage was observed over the rest of the house.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindOakland$10,000Thunderstorm gust destroyed a cattle shed near Oakland.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindOakland$5,000Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at close to 60 mph broke off most of a mature tree in Oakland which fell on a car destroying it.
June 2010Flash FloodOakland$2,000Heavy rain caused flash flooding across Highway 77 and Highway 32 near Oakland.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindOakland-A personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 62 mph.
May 2023Tornado (EF1)Oakland-This is part 2 of a tornado that started in Dodge County. After doing damage to trees along County Road E in Burt County. The tornado continued The tornado appears to have dissipated just north of Country Road F in Burt County before developing a new tornado just to the north. Additionally, a satellite tornado was reported at the end of this tornadoes life cycle. just east of this dissipating tornado.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindOakland-A public personal weather station recorded a peak wind gust of 73 mph.
May 2023Tornado (EF1)Oakland-Storm spotters reported a tornado just to the east of the much larger main tornado. This anti-cyclonic satellite tornado appears to have caused damage to center pivot irrigation systems and power lines as it traveled north for approximately one mile.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindOakland-Public reported via mping 3-inch tree limbs broken; power poles broken.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindOakland-Public report via mping of 3-inch tree limbs broken; power poles broken.
May 2021HailOakland-Public reported 1 inch hail.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindOakland-Two center pivot irrigation systems were reported blown over by the strong winds.
September 2016Flash FloodOakland-Law enforcement reported flooding of roadways in the area with at least 1 car stalled in the flood waters.
July 2015HailOakland-Small tree limbs were also reported down in the area.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindOakland-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 70 mph caused significant tree and power line damage in the Oakland area.
May 2008Flash FloodOakland-Heavy rain flooded across Highway 77 near Oakland prompting its brief closure. Rainfall in Oakland was measured at 3.5 inches, which also caused significant ponding of water in parts of Oakland.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindOakland-A thunderstorm wind gust around 60 mph was reported in the Oakland area by local law enforcement.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindOakland-Numerous trees were reported downed southwest of Oakland near the Dodge county line.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindOakland-Thunderstorm winds knocked down some 2 to 3 inch tree limbs northeast of Oakland.
June 2004HailOakland-Hail a little over 1 inch in diameter caused significant crop damage from around Oakland to near Craig.
April 2003Flash FloodOakland-Rainfall of 4.5 to 6.5 inches was reported 3 to 4 miles west of Oakland with 5.37 inches measured in town. This heavy rain developed during the late evening on the 29th and lasted into the 30th in the morning. The rain flooded several tributaries of Logan Creek and flooded across several county roads.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindOakland-Thunderstorm winds downed a lot of 4 to 5 inch tree limbs plus picked up and destroyed a picnic table in the area.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindOakland-Numerous trees damaged.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindOakland-Thunderstorm winds caused dozens of trees to be uprooted or damaged.
June 2018HailOakland-no account filed
June 2018HailOakland-no account filed
June 2018HailOakland-no account filed
June 2018HailOakland-no account filed
March 2017HailOakland-no account filed
June 2010HailOakland-no account filed
June 2008HailOakland-no account filed
May 2006HailOakland-no account filed
September 2004HailOakland-no account filed
April 2001HailOakland-no account filed
June 2001HailOakland-no account filed
August 1997HailOakland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Burt 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
Essen3.8 miles8
Craig6.5 miles9
Lyons7.0 miles8
Bertha7.3 miles8
Argo (historical)7.8 miles8
Basford (historical)12.8 miles9
Tekamah13.6 miles9
Decatur16.5 miles9

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 OaklandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q961992The 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 831822. 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.