Osmond, Nebraska
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Plum Grove precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68765. It stands on East Branch North Fork Elkhorn River. The Survey maps it on the Osmond quadrangle. 794 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,660 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresOsmond grew from 783 to 794 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 | 783 | |
| 2020 | 794 | +11 (+1%) |
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 Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Osmond quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Norfolk quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
20 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Osmond between 2004 and 2017, burning about 77 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 | 13 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 May 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 24 May 2010 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 3.1 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 April 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 April 2011 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 April 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 26 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 23 April 2014 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
32 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Osmond in 32 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 14 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osmond | $20,000 | Large trees downed. One of the trees fell on a home. Barn damaged. |
| March 2010 | Flood | Osmond | $5,000 | Melting snow, possibly aggravated by ice jamming, caused minor flooding across a few county roads northeast of Osmond. The flooding mainly just washed away some gravel and flooded agricultural lowlands. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Osmond | - | Public report of hail estimated at 1.25 inch in diameter. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Osmond | - | Broadcast media reported a hailstone that measured 3.25 inches in diameter. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Osmond | - | Public reported 2-inch hail via social media. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Osmond | - | Public reported 1-inch hail via Mping. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osmond | - | Emergency manager reported roof damage to several business and houses. Also reported many trees uprooted. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Osmond | - | Public reported quarter sized hail falling in Osmond. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Osmond | - | Public report from mping of 1.25-inch hail. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Osmond | - | Water was reported over Highway 20 at Osmond. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Osmond | - | Portions of the town had 2 to 3 feet of water, especially areas along the North Fork. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osmond | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph downed numerous large tree limbs, some up to 8 inches in diameter. The fallen trees downed some power lines causing power outages in the area. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osmond | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph split a large tree and downed other branches in the Osmond area. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osmond | - | Local law enforcement estimated thunderstorm wind gusts around 60 mph. |
| July 2010 | Flood | Osmond | - | Rainfall of 3 to 4 inches fell near and north of the Osmond area during the overnight hours of July 21 and 22nd. This caused some minor flooding across Highway 20 a few miles east of Osmond with about 4 inches of water reported across the highway for a while during the morning of the 22nd. Little or no damage was reported. |
| April 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Osmond | - | A landspout tornado was caught on film by the public southwest of Osmond. This narrow tornado was on the ground for about a 1/2 mile and apparently stayed in open farmland. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Osmond | - | Several large hailstones fell and were photographed by the public northwest of Osmond. One single stone was 3 inches in diameter while a cluster of stones measured 5 inches in diameter. No damage was reported by the hail. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osmond | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 mph flattened some corn and knocked down some limbs south through southeast of Osmond. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osmond | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph damaged a grain bin in town. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osmond | - | An officer reported a severe gust of wind with near zero visibility in blowing dust. The winds were estimated at around 70 mph. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osmond | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 65 mph were reported in town. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osmond | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 mph downed large tree branches in Osmond. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osmond | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts in excess of 70 mph did extensive tree damage in town. The local newspaper claimed not a street or yard was missed by the falling branches and all of the city's north-south streets were blocked at one or more places. Minor damage was also reported to houses and other structures, and several cars were damaged by fallen trees. Several grain bins near town also sustained damage. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osmond | - | The roof of a small building was blown off at Osmond. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Osmond | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Osmond | - | no account filed |
| September 2008 | Hail | Osmond | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Osmond | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Osmond | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Osmond | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Osmond | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osmond | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breslau | 5.5 miles | 9 | |
| Foster | 6.9 miles | 9 | |
| McLean | 7.0 miles | 9 | |
| East End Tailer Court | 9.7 miles | 9 | |
| Plainview | 10.4 miles | 9 | |
| Pierce | 11.7 miles | 10 | |
| West Randolph (historical) | 12.1 miles | 9 | |
| Wee Town | 13.9 miles | 10 |
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 Osmond | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q966232 | 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 831915. 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.




