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Cowlington, Oklahoma

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Spiro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74959. It stands on Coal Creek. The Survey maps it on the Muldrow SW quadrangle. 109 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 472 feet above sea level.

Cowlington within Le Flore County

On record in Cowlington

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Cowlington fell from 155 to 109 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
2010155
2020109-46 (-30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Cowlington between 1993 and 2017, burning about 389 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
27 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
23 July 2005Equipment and vehicle use30 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20355
4 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20259
6 March 2017Debris and open burning28 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
26 March 2001Arson/incendiarism70 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
2 March 2006Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20130
17 March 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
17 February 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Le Flore County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cowlington: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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 Shale PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Le Flore County

Storms near this place

20 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cowlington in 20 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
May 1999Tornado (F1)Cowlington$110,000An F1 tornado touchdown in Cowlington. The tornado damaged eight single-family homes, destroyed two mobile homes, and damaged two trailers. A mattress was lodged in a tree behind a mobile home in which its roof was peeled back. The tornado also uprooted several trees.
September 2010Flash FloodCowlington$50,000Several county roads were damaged by flooding in the northwestern portion of the county.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindCowlington$50,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour uprooted trees. Homes were damaged.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindCowlington$25,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew roofs off of barns, blew down power lines, and blew down a large electrical tower.
March 2024HailCowlington$20,000Golf ball size hail damaged vehicles and homes.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindCowlington$15,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew several outbuildings over.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindCowlington$5,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour snapped a tree and damaged houses.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindCowlington$5,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour destroyed a carport.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCowlington-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree onto Highway 9.
May 2020Flash FloodCowlington-Portions of Highway 59 near Cowlington were flooded.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindCowlington-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCowlington-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
March 2017HailCowlington-no account filed
March 2015HailCowlington-no account filed
March 2015HailCowlington-no account filed
April 2011HailCowlington-no account filed
May 2008HailCowlington-no account filed
March 2006Thunderstorm WindCowlington-no account filed
April 2003HailCowlington-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindCowlington-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Le Flore 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
Tucker2.0 miles16
Ward2.6 miles14
Stony Point3.5 miles16
Sunset Corner3.9 miles14
Spiro6.2 miles14
Bokoshe6.8 miles16
Coal Creek7.0 miles14
Skullyville7.4 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 CowlingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2156878The 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 1102933. 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.