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Cartwright, Oklahoma

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Colbert census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74731. The Survey maps it on the Denison Dam quadrangle. 492 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 666 feet above sea level.

Cartwright within Bryan County

Population over time

2 figures

Cartwright fell from 609 to 492 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
2010609
2020492-117 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

22 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Cartwright between 2006 and 2019, burning about 713 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSH 91
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceU.S.75
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSEQUOIA
29 August 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGATEWAY
25 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 75
25 July 2006Arson/incendiarism350 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEISENHOWER- 153
16 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLAKEVIEW FIRE
7 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bryan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Cartwright: 13 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bryan County

Storms near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cartwright in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail. 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCartwright$25,000Relayed images show minor damage to the metal roof of a church in the community of Cartwright. The event time is estimated from radar observations.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCartwright$25,000Relayed images showing a large tree uprooted, causing significant damage to a mobile home. Time is radar estimated.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindCartwright$10,000A carport and chimney were damaged, and power lines were downed.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindCartwright$2,000Several tree limbs were downed by the strong winds. Monetary damages were estimated.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindCartwright$500Large tree limbs were reported down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCartwright$500Trees were blown down.
April 2024HailCartwright-MPing report.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCartwright-Trees blown down, including a few that were uprooted.
April 2014HailCartwright-The hail was reported near Dennison Dam.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindCartwright-The winds downed large tree limbs, damaged metal outbuilding and roofs. No damage estimates were available.
May 2006HailCartwright-no account filed
April 1997HailCartwright-no account filed
April 1995HailCartwright-no account filed
April 1994HailCartwright-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bryan 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
Pickwick2.1 miles13
Staley2.5 miles13
Colbert3.2 miles13
Platter4.0 miles11
Lakeside7.1 miles11
Olive7.1 miles8
Sand Point7.7 miles11
Calera9.0 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 CartwrightAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5047458The 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 1091012. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.