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.
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
- Depew Route 66 Segmentlisted 2014
Population over time
2 figuresDepew 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 476 | |
| 2020 | 411 | -65 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1931 USGS Drumright quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Depew quadrangle1:24000
- 1990 USGS Bristow quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
1 photograph, 1940Taken 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.
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
16 since 2006Regional 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/incendiarism | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,990 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | SHAMROCK FIRE |
| 15 August 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Pawnee Agency | OIL |
| 7 April 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,203 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | MCMILLIN RANCH |
| 2 April 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 300 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | ROAD 417 |
| 9 March 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.7 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | LITTLE BUCK |
| 4 March 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 640 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | PULASKI |
| 30 March 2010 | Debris and open burning | 763 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | BRISTOW BREEZE |
| 22 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 400 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | BELL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
45 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2004 | Tornado (F3) | Depew | $350,000 | A 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 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Depew | $150,000 | This 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 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Depew | $50,000 | Thunderstorm 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 2003 | Tornado (F1) | Depew | $25,000 | A 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 2000 | Flash Flood | Depew | $20,000 | A rural bridge was washed out due to flash flooding. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Depew | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down power lines and a large tree. The tree fell on a pickup truck. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Depew | $5,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind damaged the roof of a home. |
| October 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Depew | $1,000 | Wind blew away part of a condemned building. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Depew | $100 | Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree. The tree blocked a road. |
| October 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Depew | $100 | Several large tree limbs were blown down. |
| May 2022 | Flood | Depew | - | Cropland and portions of several county roads were flooded. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Depew | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several trees and snapped numerous large tree limbs. |
| May 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Depew | - | A storm spotter reported and photographed a brief tornado touchdown over open country. |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Depew | - | 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 1998 | Hail | Depew | - | Location: along old Route 66 |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Depew | - | A severe thunderstorm produced 60 mph winds six miles southwest of Depew. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Depew | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Depew | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Depew | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Depew | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Depew | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Depew | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Depew | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Depew | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Depew | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Depew | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Depew | - | no account filed |
| February 2003 | Hail | Depew | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Depew | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Depew | - | no account filed |
| October 2000 | Hail | Depew | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Depew | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Depew | - | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Hail | Depew | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Depew | - | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Hail | Depew | - | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Hail | Depew | - | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Depew | - | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Hail | Depew | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Depew | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Depew | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | Depew | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Depew | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Depew | - | no account filed |
| October 1993 | Hail | Depew- | - | 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 Depew | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2048001 | 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 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.





