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Chattanooga, Oklahoma

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Southwest Comanche census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73528. The Survey maps it on the Chattanooga quadrangle. 400 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,145 feet above sea level.

Chattanooga within Comanche County

Population over time

3 figures

Chattanooga fell from 461 to 400 between 2000 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
2000461
20104610 (0%)
2020400-61 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Chattanooga between 2002 and 2019, burning about 28 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural1

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
2 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use6.5 acresAnadarko AgencyFAITH
31 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresAnadarko AgencyWALDO-2
27 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use10 acresAnadarko AgencyWALDO
22 July 2004Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAnadarko AgencyFAXON SCH
11 July 2002Naturalunder an acreWichita Mountains National Wildlife RefugeTIMBERHILLS
9 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.9 acresAnadarko AgencyFAXON 5
9 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAnadarko AgencyFAXON 4
9 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAnadarko AgencyFAXON 3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Comanche County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Chattanooga: 8 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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 Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Comanche County

Storms near this place

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chattanooga in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 17 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2004Thunderstorm WindChattanooga$75,000Approximately 70 distribution power poles were reported down in this area.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindChattanooga$20,000Fourteen power poles were downed due to the severe wind. Monetary damages were estimated.
March 2004Thunderstorm WindChattanooga$15,000Power lines were reported downed.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindChattanooga$10,000Relayed images show multiple power poles blown down along Jennings Road near the community of Chattanooga. The event time is estimated from radar observations.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindChattanooga$5,000Report of two power poles blown down. Time is radar estimated.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindChattanooga$5,000no account filed
October 2005Thunderstorm WindChattanooga$1,000Three power poles were downed.
May 2025HailChattanooga-The report was relayed by emergency management.
April 2023HailChattanooga-MPing report.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindChattanooga-Large tree limbs down in town. Time estimated based on radar.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindChattanooga-Thunderstorms in western Oklahoma during the evening hours on the 5th and early morning hours on the 6th produced damaging winds. Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees 10.5 miles east-northeast of Altus and broke off tree limbs in Chattanooga and Mangum.
March 2015HailChattanooga-no account filed
May 2012HailChattanooga-no account filed
May 2011HailChattanooga-no account filed
May 2009Thunderstorm WindChattanooga-no account filed
April 2007HailChattanooga-no account filed
May 2007HailChattanooga-no account filed
April 2006HailChattanooga-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindChattanooga-no account filed
April 2004HailChattanooga-no account filed
May 2004HailChattanooga-no account filed
May 2004HailChattanooga-no account filed
May 2004HailChattanooga-no account filed
June 1998HailChattanooga-no account filed
June 1998HailChattanooga-no account filed
April 1996HailChattanooga-no account filed
October 1996HailChattanooga-no account filed
October 1996HailChattanooga-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Comanche 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
Faxon4.7 miles9
Cache14.3 miles24
Indiahoma14.5 miles12
Taupa14.7 miles17
Geronimo15.0 miles9
Indiahoma Wye19.0 miles24
Lawton19.1 miles13
Kiowa and Commanche Agency (historical)19.6 miles13

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 ChattanoogaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1881616The 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 1091220. 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.