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Ohiowa, Nebraska

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68416. The Survey maps it on the Ohiowa quadrangle. 120 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,588 feet above sea level.

Ohiowa within Fillmore County

On record in Ohiowa

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

Ohiowa grew from 115 to 120 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
2010115
2020120+5 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Ohiowa between 2000 and 2018, burning about 14 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 burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
21 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 June 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 May 2010Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 March 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 October 2009Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fillmore County

Storms near this place

50 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ohiowa in 50 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 21 thunderstorm wind, 20 hail, 6 heavy rain, 2 tornado. 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
June 2013HailOhiowa$750,000Minor damage also occurred to crops.
April 2005HailOhiowa$250,000no account filed
May 2004Tornado (F1)Ohiowa$100,000A tornado that exited Thayer county moved across a part of southeast Fillmore county. The tornado struck one farmstead and dislodged the house from its foundation. It also damaged several outbuildings.
May 2004Tornado (F1)Ohiowa$100,000A pair of tornadoes was reported just northeast of the old Bruning airfield. The first tornado traveled north and struck one farmstead and dislodged the house from its foundation. The owner of property withstood the first tornado only to see the second tornado pass just southeast of his house. The second tornado hit another farmstead just to the east and damaged several outbuildings.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindOhiowa$50,000Emergency Manager reportes some power poles bent over causing power outages as well as major tree damage in town. Winds caused debris from fields to hit a nearby house.
June 2004HailOhiowa$50,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindOhiowa$50,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindOhiowa$50,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindOhiowa$25,000no account filed
March 2006HailOhiowa$25,000no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindOhiowa$25,000no account filed
June 2006HailOhiowa$15,000no account filed
June 2008HailOhiowa$10,000no account filed
June 2001HailOhiowa$10,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindOhiowa$5,000Railroad cars blown down the track.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindOhiowa-Gusts between 61 and 72 MPH were measured by a mesonet station located three miles south of Ohiowa.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindOhiowa-A wind gust of 64 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles north-northwest of Ohiowa.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindOhiowa-A wind gust of 64 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles north-northwest of Ohiowa.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindOhiowa-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 70 MPH by emergency management in Milligan. A 66 MPH wind gust was measured by a mesonet station located four miles north-northwest of Ohiowa and a wind gust of 65 MPH was measured by a mesonet state located four miles west of Milligan.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindOhiowa-A wind gust of 66 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles south of Ohiowa.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindOhiowa-A wind gust of 65 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles south of Ohiowa.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindOhiowa-A wind gust of 59 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located 3 miles south of Ohiowa.
October 2019Heavy RainOhiowa-A 24-hour rainfall total of 4.65 inches occurred 4 miles east of Ohiowa. Most of this rain fell before 8 pm CDT on Oct. 1st.
September 2018Heavy RainOhiowa-A multi-day rainfall total of 6.32 was reported 2 miles northwest of Ohiowa.
October 2016Heavy RainOhiowa-A daily rainfall total of 3.17 inches was reported from separate rounds of morning and afternoon thunderstorms.
May 2015Heavy RainOhiowa-A 24 hour storm total rainfall amount of 6.40 inches was reported.
April 2014HailOhiowa-Dime to quarter size hail was reported.
April 2012Heavy RainOhiowa-Storm total precipitation of 3.70 inches was reported.
May 2011Heavy RainOhiowa-Storm total rainfall of 3.66 inches was reported by a NeRAIN observer.
May 1994HailOhiowa-Thunderstorm winds and golf ball-size hail caused considerable damage in Ohiowa. Trees were uprooted, a mobile home was pushed off of its foundation, hail broke windows and punched holes in siding. Several buildings were destroyed including a barn, a farrowing house and a pump house. Unofficial reports of 4.50 inches of rain were received.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindOhiowa-Thunderstorm winds and golf ball-size hail caused considerable damage in Ohiowa. Trees were uprooted, a mobile home was pushed off of its foundation, hail broke windows and punched holes in siding. Several buildings were destroyed including a barn, a farrowing house and a pump house. Unofficial reports of 4.50 inches of rain were received.
March 2020HailOhiowa-no account filed
June 2020HailOhiowa-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindOhiowa-no account filed
May 2017HailOhiowa-no account filed
June 2017HailOhiowa-no account filed
June 2013HailOhiowa-no account filed
May 2012HailOhiowa-no account filed
June 2010HailOhiowa-no account filed
June 2009HailOhiowa-no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindOhiowa-no account filed
May 2007HailOhiowa-no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindOhiowa-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindOhiowa-no account filed
April 2006HailOhiowa-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindOhiowa-no account filed
May 2004Funnel CloudOhiowa-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindOhiowa-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindOhiowa-no account filed
May 1995HailOhiowa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fillmore 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
Milligan6.9 miles10
Strang7.1 miles12
Townhall9.2 miles10
Geneva10.9 miles15
Burress11.8 miles15
Martland11.9 miles13
Sawyer (historical)13.0 miles15
Shickley14.3 miles13

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 OhiowaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q742868The 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 831836. 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.