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.
Population over time
2 figuresDibble 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 878 | |
| 2020 | 867 | -11 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1904 USGS Chickasha quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Dibble quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Oklahoma City South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
20 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2023 | Tornado (EF3) | Dibble | 1 killed, 2 hurt, $4,000,000 | The 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 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dibble | 1 hurt, $15,000 | Severe 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 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dibble | $25,000 | One mobile home and five barns were destroyed. Another mobile home was damaged, and trees were downed. |
| April 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Dibble | $20,000 | The 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 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dibble | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Dibble | $2,000 | The 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 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Dibble | $2,000 | Tree 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 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Dibble | - | Tree damage was noted along 220th Street to the west of Dibble by a tornado. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dibble | - | Two homes suffered roof damage (one was still under construction), and several trees were damaged south of Dibble. |
| March 2016 | Hail | Dibble | - | Reported via MPing. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Dibble | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Flood | Dibble | - | no account filed |
| October 2021 | Hail | Dibble | - | no account filed |
| March 2016 | Hail | Dibble | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Dibble | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Dibble | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Dibble | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Dibble | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Dibble | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Dibble | - | 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 Dibble | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q610487 | 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 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.





