Foraker, Oklahoma
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Northwest Osage census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74652. The Survey maps it on the Foraker South quadrangle. 18 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,280 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresForaker fell from 19 to 18 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 | 19 | |
| 2020 | 18 | -1 (-5%) |
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.
- 1916 USGS Foraker quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Enid quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Enid quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Foraker South quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Pawhuska quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
8 of 11 photographs shown, 2020Taken 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.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Every photograph of Osage County
Fires near this place
1 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Foraker in 2017, burning about 115 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 January 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 115 acres | Osage Agency | FINN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
36 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Foraker in 36 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 20 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | Tornado (EF1) | Foraker | $10,000 | This tornado was witnessed by numerous storm chasers and remained over mainly open country. Power poles were snapped by the tornado on Foraker Road, south of Foraker. Otherwise, no known damage occurred from this tornado. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 85 to 95 mph. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foraker | $100 | Tree limbs were blown down in Foraker. |
| April 2026 | Tornado (EFU) | Foraker | - | This was a satellite tornado that occurred simultaneously with a portion of the Foraker tornado, and was witnessed by numerous storm chasers. It remained over open country with no known damage. The path details were based on the storm chaser observations and radar data. |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foraker | - | An NWS cooperative observer estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foraker | - | Large tree limbs were snapped by strong thunderstorm winds. |
| March 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foraker | - | The Oklahoma mesonet site near Foraker recorded a 59 mile an hour wind gust. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foraker | - | The Oklahoma Mesonet station 8 miles east-southeast of Foraker measured a 67 mph wind gust. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foraker | - | The Oklahoma mesonet site near Foraker recorded a 65 mile an hour gust. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Foraker | - | Heavy rains caused water to flow across secondary roads around Foraker. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foraker | - | The mesonet site near Foraker measured a wind gust of 58 miles an hour. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foraker | - | The Oklahoma mesonet site near Foraker recorded a 67 mile an hour wind gust. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Foraker | - | In addition, a 53 mph thunderstorm gust was measured at the Oklahoma mesonet site 8 miles ESE of Foraker at 1030 PM CDT. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Foraker | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Foraker | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Foraker | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foraker | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Foraker | - | no account filed |
| March 2003 | Hail | Foraker | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foraker | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Foraker | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foraker | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Foraker | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foraker | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foraker | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foraker | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Foraker | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Foraker | - | no account filed |
| November 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foraker | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foraker | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Foraker | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Foraker | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foraker | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foraker | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foraker | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foraker | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Foraker | - | 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 Foraker | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q925091 | 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 1092923. 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.




