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.
Population over time
2 figuresOxford 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 779 | |
| 2020 | 718 | -61 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1896 USGS Arapahoe quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1898 USGS Arapahoe quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Grand Island quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Hollinger quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Holdrege quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
16 since 2007Regional 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 burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 July 2015 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 15 July 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 12 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 April 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 16 April 2013 | Fireworks | under an acre | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 15 April 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
49 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2007 | Hail | Oxford | $500,000 | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Lightning | Oxford | $200,000 | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Oxford | $100,000 | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oxford | $50,000 | Wind 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 2011 | Hail | Oxford | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Oxford | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oxford | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Oxford | $25,000 | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Oxford | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oxford | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Oxford | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oxford | $5,000 | These winds were associated with a gust front from a squall line that passed just to the northeast. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Oxford | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oxford | - | A wind gust of 65 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located 5 miles north-northwest of Oxford. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oxford | - | A wind gust of 58 MPH was recorded by a mesonet station located 1 mile north of Oxford. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oxford | - | A wind gust of 67 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located 2 miles north of Oxford. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oxford | - | 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 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oxford | - | Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in tree damage. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oxford | - | A 69 MPH wind gust was measured by a mesonet station located 1 mile north of Oxford. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oxford | - | A 58 MPH wind gust was measured by a mesonet station located 5 miles north-northwest of Oxford. |
| July 2014 | Heavy Rain | Oxford | - | Rainfall total over the 24 hour period. |
| May 2011 | Heavy Rain | Oxford | - | Storm total rainfall of 5.06 inches reported over last 24 hours. |
| October 2011 | Heavy Rain | Oxford | - | Total rainfall over the past 24 hours of 5.94 inches was reported. |
| October 2011 | Heavy Rain | Oxford | - | Total rainfall over the past 24 hours of 5.76 inches was reported by a Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network observer. |
| October 2011 | Heavy Rain | Oxford | - | Total rainfall over the past 24 hours of 5.50 inches was reported by a Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network observer. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Oxford | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oxford | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oxford | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Oxford | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Oxford | - | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oxford | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Oxford | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Oxford | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Oxford | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Oxford | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Oxford | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Oxford | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Oxford | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Oxford | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Oxford | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Oxford | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Oxford | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Oxford | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Oxford | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Oxford | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Oxford | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oxford | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oxford | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oxford | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hollinger | 7.3 miles | 13 | |
| Edison | 7.9 miles | 14 | |
| Beaver City | 12.9 miles | 13 | |
| Precept | 13.5 miles | 13 | |
| Arapahoe | 14.7 miles | 14 | |
| Deerfield Corner | 16.0 miles | 14 | |
| Hendley | 19.6 miles | 14 | |
| Holbrook | 20.3 miles | 8 |
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 Oxford | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3289786 | 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 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.






