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Forest Park, Oklahoma

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Oklahoma City Southeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73121. It stands on Cherry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Spencer quadrangle. 1,049 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,211 feet above sea level.

Forest Park within Oklahoma County

Population over time

2 figures

Forest Park grew from 998 to 1,049 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
2010998
20201,049+51 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 17 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Forest Park in 2011, burning about 2,192 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,192 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry63RD STREET

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oklahoma County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Forest Park: 7 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. 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
Dolese Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dolese Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Four Star Sand Co Sand-PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sand Products Dredge and PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Spencer Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oklahoma County

Storms near this place

32 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forest Park in 32 storm reports between 2007 and 2026: 17 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2014LightningForest Park$250,000KOCO news reports one home burned down due to lightning. The home was along the 3800 block of Cimmarron Park Drive in northeast Oklahoma City. Damages estimated.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindForest Park$25,000Tree blown down onto a house. Time is radar estimated.
May 2007Tornado (EF0)Forest Park$25,000This tornado occurred within the city limits of Oklahoma City. A narrow path of considerable tree damage was found from just northwest of the intersection of NE 36th Street and Martin Luther King Avenue to just east of the intersection of Interstate 35 and NE 50th Street, including a swath about 30 yards wide across Lincoln Park Golf Course. Damage consisted of numerous small to medium branches broken off trees, as well as numerous large rotted branches. A number of small trees in wet soil were also pushed over along this path. Minor shingle damage was noted to a home just east of I-35 and NE 50th Street, and minor gutter damage was noted to a large metal building just to the southwest of the house. A couple of wooden fences were pushed over and a small canopy was torn near the start of the path. However other structures in or near the path showed little discernible damage. Monetary damages were estimated.
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Forest Park$10,000Within the larger area of thunderstorm wind damage, a small tornado developed just southeast of NE 42nd Street and Kelley Avenue and moved northeast to near NE 43rd Street and Everest Avenue. A church sign was destroyed and large trees were uprooted (although in ground that was much wetter than usual after recent heavy rainfall.) One of these trees fell onto a parked car.
August 2019Flash FloodForest Park$5,000Water over the roadways and stranded cars.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindForest Park$5,000Three- to four-inch diameter tree limbs were downed near NE 23rd Street and I-35. Monetary damages were estimated.
October 2016Thunderstorm WindForest Park$3,000Power lines were downed at this location, as well as a few more lines and a tree blown into the roadway in NE Oklahoma City.
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Forest Park$2,000One final tornado embedded within a larger area of wind damage caused damage to a convenience store at NE 63rd Street and Kelley Avenue, or just southeast of the Interstate 35/Interstate 44 interchange.
October 2021Tornado (EF0)Forest Park$1,000A third tornado from a QLCS (quasi-linear convective system) storm system that affected the Oklahoma City area developed over Forest Park near Northeast 36th Street and Bryant Avenue, and moved northeast into northeast Oklahoma City dissipating northwest of Northeast 63rd Street and Midwest Boulevard. The damage observed was generally broken tree branches and limbs.
March 2026HailForest Park-The report was relayed through mPING.
October 2025HailForest Park-The report was relayed through Spotter Network.
October 2025HailForest Park-An image showing ruler-measured hailstones was shared on social media. The location is approximate, and the event time is estimated from radar observations.
November 2025HailForest Park-The report was relayed through mPING.
September 2024HailForest Park-Severe hailfall occurred between 1726 and 1738 LST, with hailstone diameters as large as 1.75 inches (golf ball size).
September 2024HailForest Park-Time is radar estimated.
May 2024HailForest Park-MPing report.
March 2020Flash FloodForest Park-NE 23 and I-35 closed in both directions due to flash flooding. A vehicle was stranded.
August 2019Flash FloodForest Park-I35 flooded at NE 36TH street. Power outage and street lights are out.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindForest Park-A second swath of wind damage occurred across northeast Oklahoma City as a Quasi-Linear Convective System continued to move east through Oklahoma City. Although most of the damage was consistent with damaging thunderstorm winds, there were two localized area within this area where damage was consistent with a tornado (see separate entries for these tornadoes).||This area of damaging thunderstorm winds developed near Kelley Avenue between NE 36th Street and NE 42nd Street and moved northeast through the Remington Park area to just southeast of the Interstate 35/Interstate 44 interchange. The width of this area of damaging winds was up to 500 yards. Except for the damage produced by tornadoes within this area, damage was confined to trees, power lines and fences. Some trees were uprooted, although the ground was much wetter than usual with recent heavy rains.
June 2018HailForest Park-Reported via Mping.
August 2017Flash FloodForest Park-Several inches of water caused dangerous road conditions near the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr Blvd and NE 23rd st.
August 2017Flash FloodForest Park-At least a foot of water on roadway from excessive rainfall at northeast 50th street and I-35.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindForest Park-Large tree branches were snapped by wind.
May 2015HailForest Park-No damage reported.
May 2011HailForest Park-The hail was reported near Exit 136 on Interstate 35, near the Turner Turnpike.
May 2010HailForest Park-Very large hail broke street lights near Remington Park.
May 2025HailForest Park-no account filed
May 2022HailForest Park-no account filed
June 2019HailForest Park-no account filed
May 2016HailForest Park-no account filed
May 2010HailForest Park-no account filed
June 2008HailForest Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oklahoma 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
Lake Aluma2.3 miles17
Midway Village3.1 miles18
Smith Village3.7 miles18
Spencer3.9 miles17
Del City4.3 miles18
Oklahoma City4.5 miles19
Midwest City4.6 miles18
Green Pastures6.0 miles15

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 Forest ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2614735The 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 1092942. 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.

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.