Dill City, Oklahoma
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Southwest Washita census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73641. The Survey maps it on the Dill City quadrangle. 420 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,854 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDill City fell from 562 to 420 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 | 562 | |
| 2020 | 420 | -142 (-25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1955 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Dill City quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1983 USGS Dill City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Elk City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Dill City: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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 Shale Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Shale Pit | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
34 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dill City in 34 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 20 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1999 | Hail | Dill City | $75,000 | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Dill City | $35,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dill City | $25,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds destroyed a hay barn and pop-up camper. The neighboring house and outbuildings also sustained roof damage. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dill City | $7,000 | A 12-inch tree trunk was snapped by high winds. Roof damage was also reported at an outbuilding. Monetary damages were estimated. |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dill City | $3,000 | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dill City | $2,000 | Trees were reported down. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dill City | $2,000 | Several power poles were downed. |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dill City | $200 | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dill City | $100 | Tree limbs, approximately 1.5 inches in diameter, were downed. |
| November 2024 | Tornado (EFU) | Dill City | - | A Tornado Debris Signature (TDS) was observed on KFDR radar east of Burns Flat. No damage locations were reported and the path is estimated. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dill City | - | Social media image showing a 1224-inch diameter tree uprooted. Time is radar estimated. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dill City | - | The wind gust was reported on the east side of town. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Dill City | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Dill City | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Dill City | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Dill City | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Dill City | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Dill City | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Dill City | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Dill City | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Dill City | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Dill City | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Dill City | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Dill City | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dill City | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Dill City | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dill City | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Dill City | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Dill City | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Dill City | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Dill City | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Dill City | - | no account filed |
| November 1996 | Hail | Dill City | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dill City | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burns Flat | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| Braithwaite | 7.8 miles | 11 | |
| Cordell | 7.8 miles | 9 | |
| Sentinel | 8.5 miles | 9 | |
| Rocky | 9.2 miles | 9 | |
| Port | 10.4 miles | 9 | |
| Bessie | 10.8 miles | 9 | |
| Foss | 12.4 miles | 11 |
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 Dill City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2245620 | 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 1092088. 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.




