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Dibble, 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. The Survey maps it on the Dibble quadrangle. 867 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,243 feet above sea level.

Dibble within McClain County

Population over time

2 figures

Dibble fell from 878 to 867 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
2010878
2020867-11 (-1%)

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

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Dibble: 6 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 Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in McClain County

Storms near this place

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dibble in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 10 hail, 5 tornado, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death and 3 injuries. 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
April 2023Tornado (EF3)Dibble1 killed, 2 hurt, $4,000,000The third tornado of the outbreak, the Cole-Goldsby Tornado, was the most destructive of the outbreak. The multiple-vortex tornado touched down near Rockwell Avenue south of 260th Street and moved in an erratic path, generally east and east-northeast through Cole. Many homes and mobile homes were damaged or destroyed near and in Cole. A man was killed in a destroyed mobile home in the far western portion of Cole. A woman was injured in a nearby mobile home, but died of a heart attack on the way to the hospital (indirect fatality). EF3 rated damage was found to at least three homes on Portland Avenue and Main Street in Cole with most exterior walls removed.||After moving through Cole and crossing State Highway 74B, the tornado continued to move northeast, then becoming narrower and turning northerly as it past 290th Street/Chestnut Road, moving between Western Avenue and Santa Fe Avenue just west of the town of Goldsby and dissipating before reaching State Highway 9. It continued to produce roof damage (up to EF2) to homes and tree damage.
March 1998Thunderstorm WindDibble1 hurt, $15,000Severe thunderstorm winds destroyed a mobile home, injuring one of the three occupants. Three other homes in the area were damaged and two mobile homes were blown off of their blocks. Large trees were also split.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindDibble$25,000One mobile home and five barns were destroyed. Another mobile home was damaged, and trees were downed.
April 2023Tornado (EF0)Dibble$20,000The second tornado of the outbreak moved into McClain County from Grady County along County Road near Sunny Side Road. it moved east along Sunny Side road causing tree damage and roof damage to at least one home before turning southeast and then south-southeast and damaging another home roof and destroying a carport as it crossed State Highway 76.
October 1998Thunderstorm WindDibble$5,000no account filed
April 2024Tornado (EF1)Dibble$2,000The centerline of the tornado that began farther south in McClain County and straddled the county line curved north-northeast and moved back into McClain County. The last damage noted was tree damage along 170th street about 100 yards east of the county line.
April 2024Tornado (EF1)Dibble$2,000Tree damage was observed along 250th Street north-northeast of Dibble. However much of the remainder of the tornado path was inaccessible to the ground survey team.
May 2023Tornado (EF0)Dibble-Tree damage was noted along 220th Street to the west of Dibble by a tornado.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindDibble-Two homes suffered roof damage (one was still under construction), and several trees were damaged south of Dibble.
March 2016HailDibble-Reported via MPing.
May 2025HailDibble-no account filed
June 2022FloodDibble-no account filed
October 2021HailDibble-no account filed
March 2016HailDibble-no account filed
May 2012HailDibble-no account filed
July 2004HailDibble-no account filed
April 1999HailDibble-no account filed
April 1999HailDibble-no account filed
July 1994HailDibble-no account filed
April 1994HailDibble-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
Criner5.5 miles14
Cole5.6 miles13
Blanchard7.4 miles16
Washington7.9 miles18
Payne10.2 miles14
Goldsby11.0 miles20
Stealy13.9 miles16
Purcell14.3 miles17

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 DibbleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q610487The 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 1092079. 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.