Chelsea, Oklahoma
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Chelsea census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74016. The Survey maps it on the Chelsea quadrangle. 1,991 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 722 feet above sea level.
On record in Chelsea
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 3 records
Chelsea Motellisted 2004
Hogue Houselisted 1982
Pryor Creek Bridgelisted 2006
Population over time
2 figuresChelsea grew from 1,964 to 1,991 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,964 | |
| 2020 | 1,991 | +27 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1901 USGS Vinita quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1913 USGS Vinita quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Chelsea quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Bartlesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Chelsea between 2010 and 2012, burning about 616 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 December 2010 | Natural | 610 acres | Cherokee Nation Tribe | CHELSEA |
| 6 January 2011 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Cherokee Nation Tribe | BRIER PATCH |
| 2 January 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 30011 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Chelsea: 1 past producer. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chelsea in 10 storm reports between 1993 and 1997: 6 hail, 4 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chelsea | $50,000 | no account filed |
| January 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chelsea | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chelsea | $100 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Chelsea | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Chelsea | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Chelsea | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Chelsea | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Chelsea | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chelsea | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | Chelsea | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Chelsea | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2260963 | The 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 1091232. 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.






