Oberlin, Kansas Oberlin, Kansas Downtown Oberlin (1999) Downtown Oberlin (1999) Location inside Decatur County and Kansas Location inside Decatur County and Kansas State Kansas Oberlin is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Decatur County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town/city population was 1,788. Oberlin was platted as a town in 1878. It was titled after Oberlin, Ohio. The first postal service in Oberlin was established in April, 1878. On September 30, 1878, Northern Cheyenne fleeing from Indian Territory to their homes in the north, the Northern Cheyenne Exodus, attacked homesteaders near Oberlin, then a tiny hamlet.
The Last Indian Raid in Kansas room in the Decatur County Museum and a monument in the town cemetery near the graves of the victims memorialize those depredations. Oberlin was incorporated as a town/city in 1885. Oberlin is positioned at 39 49 16 N 100 31 42 WCoordinates: 39 49 16 N 100 31 42 W (39.821235, -100.528369) at an altitude of 2,562 feet (781 m). It lies on the northwest side of Sappa Creek, a tributary of the Republican River, in the High Plains region of the Great Plains. Located at the intersection of U.S.
Route 83 in northwest Kansas, Oberlin is 228 miles (367 km) northwest of Wichita, 238 miles (383 km) east of Denver, and 320 miles (510 km) west-northwest of Kansas City. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 1.91 square miles (4.95 km2), all land. Lying in the transition zone between North America's humid subtropical climate (Koppen Cfa), humid continental climate (Koppen Dfa), and semi-arid climate (Koppen BSk), Oberlin experiences hot, humid summers and cold, dry winters.
The average temperature in Oberlin is 52 F (11 C) with temperatures exceeding 90 F (32 C) an average of 62 days a year and dropping below 32 F (0 C) an average of 158 days a year.
Oberlin typically experiences rain 66 days a year and snow flurry 11 days a year.
Precipitation averages 23 inches (574 mm) per year, and snow flurry averages 32 inches (80 cm) per year. On average, January is the coldest month, and July is both the hottest month and the wettest month.
The hottest temperature recorded in Oberlin was 111 F (44 C) in 1954; the coldest temperature recorded was -31 F (-35 C) in 1989. Climate data for Oberlin, Kansas Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 2.5 1.8 2.3 0.8 0 0 0 0 0.1 0.2 1.4 2.1 11.2 As of the census of 2010, there were 1,788 citizens , 824 homeholds, and 477 families residing in the city.
There were 824 homeholds of which 21.2% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 47.8% were married couples living together, 7.3% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 2.8% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 42.1% were non-families.
The average homehold size was 2.07 and the average family size was 2.73.
The median age in the town/city was 52 years.
20% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 4.1% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 17.4% were from 25 to 44; 29% were from 45 to 64; and 29.5% were 65 years of age or older.
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,994 citizens , 879 homeholds, and 550 families residing in the city.
There were 879 homeholds out of which 25.8% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 51.8% were married couples living together, 7.6% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 37.4% were non-families.
The average homehold size was 2.15 and the average family size was 2.78.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 22.6% under the age of 18, 5.1% from 18 to 24, 21.0% from 25 to 44, 21.4% from 45 to 64, and 29.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $30,816, and the median income for a family was $34,583.
Oberlin is home to the Last Indian Raid Museum, which contains multiple late 19th and early 20th century buildings filled with artifacts chronicling the history of Oberlin and early Plains settlers.
Oberlin is also home to a recreation center instead of in 2010 that is home to a 3 - D-capable, one-screen movie theater and a bowling alley. The Oberlin Area Band is an intergenerational band.
The Oberlin City Park is near the Decatur Community High School and has a playground, picnic shelter, band shell, full basketball court, and is home to the Oberlin swimming pool. The City of Oberlin is the owner of the Sappa Park two miles east of town.
Formerly a state park complete with a lake, Sappa Park today is home to a man-made wetlands, bike and hiking paths, a nine-hole disc golf course, and a shelter home assembled by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s.
The park was advanced in 1935 by the National Park Service, with the Works Progress Administration (WPA) hiring unemployed young men to build the park's dam and shelter home.
Oberlin is a town/city of the third class, as stated to state statute, with a mayor-council form of government. The town/city council consists of five members and meets on the first and third Thursday of each month at 7 - PM. Oberlin USD 294 operates two enhance schools in the city: Oberlin Elementary School (Grades Pre-K-6) and Decatur Community Junior/Senior High School (7-12). The Oberlin Herald is the city's sole newspaper, presented weekly. Oberlin is in the Wichita-Hutchinson, Kansas tv market. NBC partner KSNK, licensed to Mc - Cook, Nebraska, broadcasts on channel 8 from studios west of Oberlin. KSNK is a satellite station of KSNW in Wichita. Notable individuals who were born in and/or have lived in Oberlin include: Sam Francis Overall #1 pick in 1937 NFL Draft, football coach at Kansas State University Oberlin - History a b "American Fact - Finder".
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