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Fargo, Oklahoma

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Northeast Ellis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73840. It stands on Boggy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fargo quadrangle. 312 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,110 feet above sea level.

Fargo within Ellis County

On record in Fargo

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

Fargo fell from 364 to 312 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
2010364
2020312-52 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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, 1943

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.

Fargo, Oklahoma. Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe train rounding a curve
Fargo, Oklahoma. Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe train rounding a curve
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fargo: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
UnknownLimestone, GeneralProducer
Unknown Caliche PitLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ellis County

Storms near this place

30 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fargo in 30 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 20 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
August 2002Thunderstorm WindFargo$15,000Two trees were downed, and railroad crossing arms were damaged.
May 2017HailFargo$10,000Vehicles and houses damaged by wind blown hail.
March 2021Thunderstorm WindFargo$5,000Numerous power poles and trees downed. Damage to a wind turbine was reported.
November 2015Tornado (EF2)Fargo$3,000The first damage known to occur with this tornado was damage to trees near EW 34 Road and NS 184 Road. A home received damage, sheds were destroyed, and trees were snapped between NS 186 and NS 187 on EW 31 Road. This tornado moved into Harper County west of Fort Supply.
April 1999LightningFargo$1,500no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindFargo$500no account filed
May 2024HailFargo-MPing report.
August 2023HailFargo-Social media report.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindFargo-Several trees and 10 electrical poles were blown down. The Ag building at the vocational school in town was totally destroyed, as were several smaller out buildings. Windows were broken out of several buildings and one roof was ripped off of a mobile home. Monetary damage estimates were not available.
May 2010Tornado (EF1)Fargo-A tornado touched down briefly north of Fargo destroying a trailer and damaging trees and power lines. Monetary damage estimates were not available.
April 2009Flash FloodFargo-Water was flowing over State Highway 46 making it impassable.
May 2022HailFargo-no account filed
May 2017HailFargo-no account filed
June 2017HailFargo-no account filed
May 2016HailFargo-no account filed
June 2016HailFargo-no account filed
April 2012HailFargo-no account filed
May 2010HailFargo-no account filed
February 2007HailFargo-no account filed
May 2007HailFargo-no account filed
June 2006HailFargo-no account filed
May 2003HailFargo-no account filed
May 2001HailFargo-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindFargo-no account filed
April 1999HailFargo-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindFargo-no account filed
May 1997HailFargo-no account filed
June 1996HailFargo-no account filed
June 1996HailFargo-no account filed
August 1993HailFargo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ellis 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
Gage8.2 miles8
Chaney13.9 miles8
Shattuck15.3 miles9
Harmon16.3 miles9
Arnett18.5 miles8
Touzalin18.8 miles9
Catesby19.7 miles8
Goodwin20.6 miles8

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 FargoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2608568The 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 1092762. 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.