Fort Cobb, Oklahoma
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Fort Cobb census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73038. It stands on Cobb Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Cobb quadrangle. 518 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,253 feet above sea level.
On record in Fort Cobb
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
Fort Cobb Sitelisted 1973
Population over time
2 figuresFort Cobb fell from 634 to 518 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 | 634 | |
| 2020 | 518 | -116 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1951 USGS Fort Cobb quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Fort Cobb quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Anadarko quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
147 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Fort Cobb between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,506 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 21 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 42 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 31 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 25 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 21 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Fireworks | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2000 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Anadarko Agency | TONKOWA |
| 5 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Anadarko Agency | ETHEL FIRE |
| 4 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 134 acres | Anadarko Agency | COPPERHEAD FIRE |
| 4 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 165 acres | Anadarko Agency | PSP#2 |
| 3 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Anadarko Agency | YELLOW LAB FIRE |
| 26 September 2012 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Anadarko Agency | GOKEY DOKEY |
| 14 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 140 acres | Anadarko Agency | MANY SPOTS FIRE |
| 12 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.3 acres | Anadarko Agency | VOLUNTEER FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fort Cobb: 2 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 Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nowhere | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Washita | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Apache Wye | 5.6 miles | 13 | |
| Pine Ridge | 5.7 miles | 13 | |
| Squaretop | 7.3 miles | 13 | |
| Broxton | 7.8 miles | 11 | |
| Carnegie | 8.9 miles | 8 | |
| Albert | 9.4 miles | 12 |
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 Fort Cobb | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1826591 | 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 1092951. 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.




