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.
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
- Oakland City Auditoriumlisted 2019
Population over time
2 figuresOakland 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,244 | |
| 2020 | 1,369 | +125 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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 Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Oakland quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Blair quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2011Regional 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 burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
38 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2023 | Tornado (EF2) | Oakland | 2 hurt | This 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 2000 | Lightning | Oakland | $30,000 | A lightning strike caused a considerable amount of damage to a house in Oakland. |
| July 2000 | Lightning | Oakland | $20,000 | A 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 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | $10,000 | Thunderstorm gust destroyed a cattle shed near Oakland. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | $5,000 | Thunderstorm 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 2010 | Flash Flood | Oakland | $2,000 | Heavy rain caused flash flooding across Highway 77 and Highway 32 near Oakland. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | - | A personal weather station measured a peak wind gust of 62 mph. |
| May 2023 | Tornado (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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | - | A public personal weather station recorded a peak wind gust of 73 mph. |
| May 2023 | Tornado (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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | - | Public reported via mping 3-inch tree limbs broken; power poles broken. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | - | Public report via mping of 3-inch tree limbs broken; power poles broken. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Oakland | - | Public reported 1 inch hail. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | - | Two center pivot irrigation systems were reported blown over by the strong winds. |
| September 2016 | Flash Flood | Oakland | - | Law enforcement reported flooding of roadways in the area with at least 1 car stalled in the flood waters. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Oakland | - | Small tree limbs were also reported down in the area. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at around 70 mph caused significant tree and power line damage in the Oakland area. |
| May 2008 | Flash Flood | Oakland | - | 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | - | A thunderstorm wind gust around 60 mph was reported in the Oakland area by local law enforcement. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | - | Numerous trees were reported downed southwest of Oakland near the Dodge county line. |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked down some 2 to 3 inch tree limbs northeast of Oakland. |
| June 2004 | Hail | Oakland | - | Hail a little over 1 inch in diameter caused significant crop damage from around Oakland to near Craig. |
| April 2003 | Flash Flood | Oakland | - | 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 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | - | Thunderstorm winds downed a lot of 4 to 5 inch tree limbs plus picked up and destroyed a picnic table in the area. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | - | Numerous trees damaged. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakland | - | Thunderstorm winds caused dozens of trees to be uprooted or damaged. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Oakland | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Oakland | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Oakland | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Oakland | - | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Hail | Oakland | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Oakland | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Oakland | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Oakland | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | Oakland | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Oakland | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Oakland | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Oakland | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essen | 3.8 miles | 8 | |
| Craig | 6.5 miles | 9 | |
| Lyons | 7.0 miles | 8 | |
| Bertha | 7.3 miles | 8 | |
| Argo (historical) | 7.8 miles | 8 | |
| Basford (historical) | 12.8 miles | 9 | |
| Tekamah | 13.6 miles | 9 | |
| Decatur | 16.5 miles | 9 |
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 Oakland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q961992 | 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 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.




