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.
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
Ohiowa Public Schoollisted 2005
Population over time
2 figuresOhiowa 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 115 | |
| 2020 | 120 | +5 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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 Lincoln quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Ohiowa quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fairbury quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 2000Regional 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 burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 9 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 May 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 March 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 October 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
50 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2013 | Hail | Ohiowa | $750,000 | Minor damage also occurred to crops. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Ohiowa | $250,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Ohiowa | $100,000 | A 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 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Ohiowa | $100,000 | A 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | $50,000 | Emergency 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 2004 | Hail | Ohiowa | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | $25,000 | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Ohiowa | $25,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Ohiowa | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Ohiowa | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Ohiowa | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | $5,000 | Railroad cars blown down the track. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | Gusts between 61 and 72 MPH were measured by a mesonet station located three miles south of Ohiowa. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | A wind gust of 64 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles north-northwest of Ohiowa. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | A wind gust of 64 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles north-northwest of Ohiowa. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | 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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | A wind gust of 66 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles south of Ohiowa. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | A wind gust of 65 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles south of Ohiowa. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | A wind gust of 59 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located 3 miles south of Ohiowa. |
| October 2019 | Heavy Rain | Ohiowa | - | 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 2018 | Heavy Rain | Ohiowa | - | A multi-day rainfall total of 6.32 was reported 2 miles northwest of Ohiowa. |
| October 2016 | Heavy Rain | Ohiowa | - | A daily rainfall total of 3.17 inches was reported from separate rounds of morning and afternoon thunderstorms. |
| May 2015 | Heavy Rain | Ohiowa | - | A 24 hour storm total rainfall amount of 6.40 inches was reported. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Ohiowa | - | Dime to quarter size hail was reported. |
| April 2012 | Heavy Rain | Ohiowa | - | Storm total precipitation of 3.70 inches was reported. |
| May 2011 | Heavy Rain | Ohiowa | - | Storm total rainfall of 3.66 inches was reported by a NeRAIN observer. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Ohiowa | - | 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | 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 2020 | Hail | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ohiowa | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Ohiowa | - | 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 Ohiowa | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q742868 | 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 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.




