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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.

Osmond within Pierce County

Population over time

2 figures

Osmond 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.

YearPeople Change
2010783
2020794+11 (+1%)

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

20 since 2004

Regional 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 burning13
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 May 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
24 May 2010Railroad operations and maintenance3.1 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 April 2014Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 April 2011Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 April 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 April 2012Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
26 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
23 April 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Storms near this place

32 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1998Thunderstorm WindOsmond$20,000Large trees downed. One of the trees fell on a home. Barn damaged.
March 2010FloodOsmond$5,000Melting 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 2025HailOsmond-Public report of hail estimated at 1.25 inch in diameter.
August 2024HailOsmond-Broadcast media reported a hailstone that measured 3.25 inches in diameter.
July 2023HailOsmond-Public reported 2-inch hail via social media.
April 2023HailOsmond-Public reported 1-inch hail via Mping.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindOsmond-Emergency manager reported roof damage to several business and houses. Also reported many trees uprooted.
August 2021HailOsmond-Public reported quarter sized hail falling in Osmond.
August 2021HailOsmond-Public report from mping of 1.25-inch hail.
March 2019FloodOsmond-Water was reported over Highway 20 at Osmond.
March 2019FloodOsmond-Portions of the town had 2 to 3 feet of water, especially areas along the North Fork.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindOsmond-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 2011Thunderstorm WindOsmond-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph split a large tree and downed other branches in the Osmond area.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindOsmond-Local law enforcement estimated thunderstorm wind gusts around 60 mph.
July 2010FloodOsmond-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 2007Tornado (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 2007HailOsmond-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 2006Thunderstorm WindOsmond-Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 mph flattened some corn and knocked down some limbs south through southeast of Osmond.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindOsmond-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 70 mph damaged a grain bin in town.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindOsmond-An officer reported a severe gust of wind with near zero visibility in blowing dust. The winds were estimated at around 70 mph.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindOsmond-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 65 mph were reported in town.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindOsmond-Thunderstorm winds estimated at around 60 mph downed large tree branches in Osmond.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindOsmond-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 1994Thunderstorm WindOsmond-The roof of a small building was blown off at Osmond.
June 2014HailOsmond-no account filed
May 2012HailOsmond-no account filed
September 2008HailOsmond-no account filed
June 2007HailOsmond-no account filed
May 2005HailOsmond-no account filed
May 2004HailOsmond-no account filed
July 1996HailOsmond-no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindOsmond-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pierce 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
Breslau5.5 miles9
Foster6.9 miles9
McLean7.0 miles9
East End Tailer Court9.7 miles9
Plainview10.4 miles9
Pierce11.7 miles10
West Randolph (historical)12.1 miles9
Wee Town13.9 miles10

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 OsmondAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q966232The 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.