Osmond is a child of the railroad and was incorporated in 1890 along the Pacific Short Line Railroad. The town was the fourth incorporated community in the county with Pierce (1871), Plainview (1886) and Foster (1885, first named Morehouse) already in existence.
Lost with the passing of time is the origin of the town’s name — Osmond. There are three versions of the origin. One is that Osmond was named by Pacific Short Line president Donald McLean after some good friends he had in the East. The second is that the six men who chose the townsite took the first letter of their last names and formed them into the unusual but pleasing name of Osmond. The third is that the name Osborn was the choice of a railroad official by that name, however, since a town in the state already had that name, the new settlement was given the name Osmond.
From the 200 persons first counted as residents in 1890, the community grew to 500 in 1900, and now has a population of just under 800.
This cache site gives you a view of Osmond from the east. From here you can see the church steeple of St. Mary’s and the Osmond water tower. You can also see the ball fields, which occasionally are flooded when Osmond and Wausa to the north get a lot of rain and the North Fork of the Elkhorn River rises above its banks.