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Cole, Oklahoma

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Newcastle-Blanchard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73010. It stands on North Fork Walnut Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cole quadrangle. 624 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,145 feet above sea level.

Cole within McClain County

Population over time

3 figures

Cole grew from 473 to 624 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
2000473
2010555+82 (+17%)
2020624+69 (+12%)

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.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Cole: 10 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 and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in McClain County

Storms near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cole in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 5 hail, 5 tornado, 3 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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
May 2015Flash FloodCole1 killed, $30,000News 9 reports high water swept a vehicle into Walnut Creek near Cole. Some individuals were successfully rescued, but one man was unable to escape and ultimately perished in the flood waters. The vehicle was swept away near Highway 74B and May Ave north of Cole.
April 2024Tornado (EF2)Cole$200,000Tree damage was first observed near May Avenue and 297th Street north of Cole. The tornado moved northeast producing roof damage to homes just west of Goldsby with at least two homes losing most their roofs. Other trees were damaged along the path. The tornado dissipated after crossing Interstate 35 just south of Sycamore Road.
February 2023Tornado (EF2)Cole$200,000This tornado developed just west of Pennsylvania Avenue about 1/2 mile south of 290th Street where it took the roof off an outbuilding. The tornado moved east-northeast damaging a mobile home along 290th Street, and then snapped a couple of power poles as moved into the city limits of Goldsby just east of SW 24th Avenue. The tornado caused roof and fence damage in a neighborhood near NW 12th Avenue and Center Road in Goldsby before moving across the Goldsby airport damaging hangars. The tornado then crossed the Canadian River into Cleveland County.
May 2023Tornado (EF1)Cole$100,000A tornado was observed by many spotters and storm chasers moving from southwest of Cole to Goldsby, remaining to the south of the damage path of the large EF3 tornado that affected Cole on April 19. This tornado was a multiple vortex tornado at times, developing initially 2 miles southwest of the center of Cole and move east-northeast through the southern portion of Cole producing tree and roof damage, including removing a large section of roof to a home just east of the Cole city limits. The tornado turned northeast towards Goldsby continuing to produce tree and roof damage. At the end of the path in Goldsby, the tornado took a hard left and moved northwest for the final half-mile dissipating just northwest of NW 12th Avenue and Center Road, crossing the damage path from the February 26 Goldsby-Norman Tornado along Center Road.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindCole$50,000no account filed
April 2023Tornado (EF1)Cole$30,000While the Cole-Goldsby tornado was still ongoing, the fifth tornado of the outbreak developed to the south. This tornado touched down just northwest of 260th Street and Fernwood Road, initially moving southeast then curving northeast dissipating southeast of Santa Fe Avenue and State Highway 74B. The tornado partially unroofed a home, heavily damaged an outbuilding, and produced tree damage along the path.
April 2024Tornado (EF0)Cole$2,000This tornado produced tree damage as it moved northeast from west-northwest of Cole to northeast of Cole.
August 2024HailCole-MPing report.
April 2016Flash FloodCole-Closures along state highway 74 and 74b due to flash flooding.
July 2007Flash FloodCole-State Highway 74B at Pennsylvania Avenue was closed due to high water.
April 2016HailCole-no account filed
May 2004HailCole-no account filed
May 2001HailCole-no account filed
May 2001HailCole-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McClain 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
Blanchard5.1 miles16
Washington5.6 miles18
Dibble5.6 miles13
Goldsby5.7 miles20
Criner9.0 miles14
Newcastle10.1 miles15
Purcell12.8 miles17
Payne13.7 miles14

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 ColeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2092987The 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 1091565. 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.

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.