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Oneida is a tiny incorporated city in Nemaha County, in far northeastern Kansas, inside Gilman Township.

The 2020 census counted just 61 people in Oneida, living in only 9 households and 5 families, within a total area of 0.24 square miles.

Oneida was platted around 1873 by Colonel Cyrus Shinn, who bought 400 acres for the townsite, and it was incorporated in 1884.

The town was named after the Oneida people of the Iroquois Confederacy, and its streets were named after Chicago thoroughfares.

Before it was Oneida, the settlement was called Lappin: a post office under that name was established on August 8, 1872, at Henry Kerns's farmhouse, and the town and post office were renamed Oneida on January 19, 1876.

Oneida peaked at 311 residents in 1890 before farming mechanization shrank it; its post office has since closed, and Legends of Kansas classifies it as an extinct town even though it remains an incorporated city.

The Union Pacific Railroad still passes through Oneida, nine miles northeast of Seneca, the Nemaha County seat, and local students attend Nemaha Central USD 115 schools in Seneca.