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Depew, Oklahoma

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Bristow South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74028. The Survey maps it on the Depew quadrangle. 411 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 883 feet above sea level.

Depew within Creek County

On record in Depew

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

Depew fell from 476 to 411 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
2010476
2020411-65 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 1940

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Plow points in blacksmith shop. Depew, Oklahoma
Plow points in blacksmith shop. Depew, Oklahoma
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

16 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Depew between 2006 and 2018, burning about 13,204 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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
Arson/incendiarism7
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
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
8 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3,990 acresOklahoma Division of ForestrySHAMROCK FIRE
15 August 2006Naturalunder an acrePawnee AgencyOIL
7 April 2006Arson/incendiarism1,203 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeMCMILLIN RANCH
2 April 2006Arson/incendiarism300 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeROAD 417
9 March 2008Arson/incendiarism3.7 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeLITTLE BUCK
4 March 2009Arson/incendiarism640 acresOkmulgee Field OfficePULASKI
30 March 2010Debris and open burning763 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeBRISTOW BREEZE
22 March 2018Debris and open burning400 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeBELL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Creek County

Storms near this place

45 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Depew in 45 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 23 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 1 flash 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
May 2004Tornado (F3)Depew$350,000A tornado moved from the west northwest of Depew to the north northeast of Depew. At its strongest it produced F3 damage. The F3 rating was based on a 20 foot section of a concrete anchored iron pipe cattle gate being removed from the ground and displaced 30 feet. The gate was anchored by 3 posts. All of the posts were set in 24 inches of concrete. Another tornado formed near and just after this tornado dissipated. The two tornadoes formed a nearly continuous damage path. The damage produced by the two tornadoes in western Creek County included 5 mobile homes destroyed, 2 houses destroyed, and 4 houses with significant roof damage. The path of the second tornado is described in a subsequent entry.
May 2004Tornado (F1)Depew$150,000This is the tornado mentioned in the previous entry. It formed near and just after the first tornado and traveled mainly through open territory. However, some of the structural damage that was mentioned earlier occurred along its path.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindDepew$50,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour caused damage in and just to the north of Depew. In Depew, the roof was blown off a house and numerous large tree limbs were blown down. One mile north of Depew, part of the roof of a barn was blown off, the front porch of a house was blown off, and numerous trees were damaged.
May 2003Tornado (F1)Depew$25,000A F1 tornado touched down just west of Depew and traveled to just northeast of Depew before dissipating. Although a few structures along the fringe of the path sustained minor damage, the damage was mostly characterized by many snapped and uprooted trees. This tornado was produced by the same storm that produced tornadoes in the northern Oklahoma City area at Stroud in Lincoln county as the storm moved to the northeast along I-44.
October 2000Flash FloodDepew$20,000A rural bridge was washed out due to flash flooding.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindDepew$15,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down power lines and a large tree. The tree fell on a pickup truck.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindDepew$5,000Strong thunderstorm wind damaged the roof of a home.
October 1998Thunderstorm WindDepew$1,000Wind blew away part of a condemned building.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindDepew$100Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree. The tree blocked a road.
October 1998Thunderstorm WindDepew$100Several large tree limbs were blown down.
May 2022FloodDepew-Cropland and portions of several county roads were flooded.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindDepew-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several trees and snapped numerous large tree limbs.
May 2010Tornado (EF0)Depew-A storm spotter reported and photographed a brief tornado touchdown over open country.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindDepew-Strong thunderstorm wind damaged the roofs of homes, severely damaged several barns and uprooted several trees at West 271st Street South and South 449th West Avenue. Maximum wind gusts based on this damage were estimated to be about 80 mph.
June 1998HailDepew-Location: along old Route 66
July 1995Thunderstorm WindDepew-A severe thunderstorm produced 60 mph winds six miles southwest of Depew.
April 2022HailDepew-no account filed
April 2014HailDepew-no account filed
May 2011HailDepew-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindDepew-no account filed
August 2008HailDepew-no account filed
June 2007HailDepew-no account filed
May 2007HailDepew-no account filed
May 2007HailDepew-no account filed
April 2004HailDepew-no account filed
May 2004HailDepew-no account filed
August 2003HailDepew-no account filed
February 2003HailDepew-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindDepew-no account filed
August 2002HailDepew-no account filed
October 2000HailDepew-no account filed
May 1999HailDepew-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindDepew-no account filed
October 1998HailDepew-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindDepew-no account filed
October 1997HailDepew-no account filed
October 1997HailDepew-no account filed
October 1997Thunderstorm WindDepew-no account filed
October 1997HailDepew-no account filed
April 1996HailDepew-no account filed
July 1995HailDepew-no account filed
May 1993HailDepew-no account filed
May 1993Thunderstorm WindDepew-no account filed
May 1993Thunderstorm WindDepew-no account filed
October 1993HailDepew--no account filed

Every storm recorded in Creek 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
Pulaski3.6 miles16
Ritts Junction4.3 miles10
Milfay4.6 miles11
Bristow6.4 miles16
Gypsy6.8 miles11
Iron Post7.5 miles11
Aron8.3 miles10
Shamrock8.5 miles11

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 DepewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2048001The 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 1092051. 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.

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.