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Deer Creek, Oklahoma

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lamont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74636. The Survey maps it on the Deer Creek quadrangle. 78 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,089 feet above sea level.

Deer Creek within Grant County

On record in Deer Creek

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

3 figures

Deer Creek fell from 147 to 78 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
2000147
2010130-17 (-12%)
202078-52 (-40%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 11 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Deer Creek: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 Clay PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deer Creek in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 15 hail, 5 tornado, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
July 2013Thunderstorm WindDeer Creek$5,000Shingles were blown off roofs and numerous tree limbs downed.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindDeer Creek$200Sheet metal outbuilding destroyed near Deer Creek. Time estimate from radar.
April 2026HailDeer Creek-An image from a broadcast media storm chaser was shared on social media. The location is approximate.
April 2026Tornado (EFU)Deer Creek-Storm chasers with Oklahoma City television stations observed a tornado southeast of Renfrow and north of Deer Creek. No damage was reported and the path is estimated.
April 2024HailDeer Creek-MPing report.
April 2023HailDeer Creek-MPing report.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindDeer Creek-Estimated gusts.
May 2019FloodDeer Creek-Standing water on roadway. Report with picture via twitter.
May 1997HailDeer Creek-at the intersection of Highways 11 and 74
May 1997Tornado (F0)Deer Creek-Brief touchdown reported by County Sheriff's Office
May 1997Tornado (F0)Deer Creek-Second brief touchdown reported by County Sheriff's Office
November 2021HailDeer Creek-no account filed
May 2017HailDeer Creek-no account filed
July 2013HailDeer Creek-no account filed
April 2004HailDeer Creek-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindDeer Creek-no account filed
June 2004HailDeer Creek-no account filed
June 2004HailDeer Creek-no account filed
April 2003HailDeer Creek-no account filed
May 1998HailDeer Creek-no account filed
June 1997HailDeer Creek-no account filed
June 1996HailDeer Creek-no account filed
September 1996Tornado (F0)Deer Creek-no account filed
September 1996Tornado (F0)Deer Creek-no account filed
April 1994HailDeer Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Numa4.6 miles11
Lamont8.2 miles10
Renfrow11.0 miles10
Medford11.4 miles11
Salt Fork12.3 miles10
Jefferson15.5 miles10
Clyde16.2 miles10
Pond Creek17.7 miles10

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 Deer CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2014461The 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 1092001. 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.