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Oxford, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Oxford precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68967. The Survey maps it on the Hollinger quadrangle. 718 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,077 feet above sea level.

Oxford within Furnas County

Population over time

2 figures

Oxford fell from 779 to 718 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
2010779
2020718-61 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

16 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Oxford between 2007 and 2020, burning about 28 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 burning6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
31 July 2015Debris and open burning6.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 July 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
12 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
16 April 2013Fireworksunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 April 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Furnas County

Storms near this place

49 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oxford in 49 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 25 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 5 heavy rain, 1 lightning. 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
September 2007HailOxford$500,000no account filed
August 2005LightningOxford$200,000no account filed
July 2019Flash FloodOxford$100,000no account filed
September 2013Thunderstorm WindOxford$50,000Wind gusts estimated near 70 mph resulted in a tree of 10 to 12 inches in diameter being blown down onto a van. An irrigation pivot was blown over next to Highway 34 near Road 436.
June 2011HailOxford$25,000no account filed
May 2005HailOxford$25,000no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindOxford$25,000no account filed
June 1997HailOxford$25,000no account filed
March 2012HailOxford$10,000no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindOxford$10,000no account filed
September 2006HailOxford$10,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindOxford$5,000These winds were associated with a gust front from a squall line that passed just to the northeast.
May 2007HailOxford$5,000no account filed
April 2022Thunderstorm WindOxford-A wind gust of 65 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located 5 miles north-northwest of Oxford.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindOxford-A wind gust of 58 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located 1 mile north of Oxford.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindOxford-A wind gust of 67 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located 2 miles north of Oxford.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindOxford-Winds gusting anywhere from 70 to 95 MPH resulted in damage in the Oxford area. The highest wind gust was 95 MPH, recorded at 11:57 PM CDT by a mesonet station located 1 mile north of Oxford, but this station also recorded a 73 MPH gust at 11:53 PM CDT. A 72 MPH wind gusts was measured at 11:54 PM CDT by a mesonet station located 5 miles north-northwest of Oxford. Tree damage was reported, and at least one power pole was snapped just south of Oxford. Debris from a nearby construction site was blown onto Highway 46.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindOxford-Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in tree damage.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindOxford-A 69 MPH wind gust was measured by a mesonet station located 1 mile north of Oxford.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindOxford-A 58 MPH wind gust was measured by a mesonet station located 5 miles north-northwest of Oxford.
July 2014Heavy RainOxford-Rainfall total over the 24 hour period.
May 2011Heavy RainOxford-Storm total rainfall of 5.06 inches reported over last 24 hours.
October 2011Heavy RainOxford-Total rainfall over the past 24 hours of 5.94 inches was reported.
October 2011Heavy RainOxford-Total rainfall over the past 24 hours of 5.76 inches was reported by a Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network observer.
October 2011Heavy RainOxford-Total rainfall over the past 24 hours of 5.50 inches was reported by a Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network observer.
April 2022HailOxford-no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindOxford-no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindOxford-no account filed
May 2019HailOxford-no account filed
August 2018HailOxford-no account filed
March 2017Thunderstorm WindOxford-no account filed
August 2014HailOxford-no account filed
April 2012HailOxford-no account filed
June 2011HailOxford-no account filed
July 2011HailOxford-no account filed
August 2008HailOxford-no account filed
July 2007HailOxford-no account filed
April 2007HailOxford-no account filed
July 2005HailOxford-no account filed
June 2005HailOxford-no account filed
May 2005HailOxford-no account filed
April 2003HailOxford-no account filed
May 2003HailOxford-no account filed
June 2003HailOxford-no account filed
May 2003HailOxford-no account filed
May 2002HailOxford-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindOxford-no account filed
September 1999Thunderstorm WindOxford-no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindOxford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Furnas 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
Hollinger7.3 miles13
Edison7.9 miles14
Beaver City12.9 miles13
Precept13.5 miles13
Arapahoe14.7 miles14
Deerfield Corner16.0 miles14
Hendley19.6 miles14
Holbrook20.3 miles8

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 OxfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3289786The 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 831942. 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.