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Fort Gibson, Oklahoma

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Muskogee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74434. It stands on Correll Branch. The Survey maps it on the Northeast Muskogee quadrangle. 3,814 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 564 feet above sea level.

Fort Gibson within Muskogee County

On record in Fort Gibson

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 11 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 33 shown

Every surveyed structure in Muskogee County

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Gibson fell from 4,154 to 3,814 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
20104,154
20203,814-340 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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

7 photographs, 1939 to 2020

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.

Rusty sign at Mac's Drive-In restaurant in the town of Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, which shares its name with an American fort of the same name
Rusty sign at Mac's Drive-In restaurant in the town of Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, which shares its name with an American fort of the same name
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
White migrant family eating lunch of blackberry pie on the highway east of Fort Gibson, Oklahoma
White migrant family eating lunch of blackberry pie on the highway east of Fort Gibson, Oklahoma
Lee, Russell, 1939. Library of Congress
White migrant children sitting in back seat of family car east of Fort Gibson, Muskogee County, Oklahoma
White migrant children sitting in back seat of family car east of Fort Gibson, Muskogee County, Oklahoma
Lee, Russell, 1939. Library of Congress
Son of white migrant eating lunch of blackberry pie along the highway east of Fort Gibson, Oklahoma
Son of white migrant eating lunch of blackberry pie along the highway east of Fort Gibson, Oklahoma
Lee, Russell, 1939. Library of Congress
Fort Gibson, Southwest Barracks, 110 East Ash Avenue, Fort Gibson, Muskogee County, OK
Fort Gibson, Southwest Barracks, 110 East Ash Avenue, Fort Gibson, Muskogee County, OK
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fort Gibson, Commissary Building, Garrison Avenue, Fort Gibson, Muskogee County, OK
Fort Gibson, Commissary Building, Garrison Avenue, Fort Gibson, Muskogee County, OK
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fort Gibson, Northeast Barracks, 110 East Ash Avenue, Fort Gibson, Muskogee County, OK
Fort Gibson, Northeast Barracks, 110 East Ash Avenue, Fort Gibson, Muskogee County, OK
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Fort Gibson between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,603 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism11
Debris and open burning9
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
31 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
20 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
18 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30377
18 August 1999Misuse of fire by a minor18 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
14 August 1999Debris and open burning9.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
1 August 2012Arson/incendiarism50 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry40307
24 July 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
21 July 2011Misuse of fire by a minor25 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30352

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskogee County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Fort Gibson: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
H D Youngman Contr Limestone PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Arkhola #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Arkhola Mine #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Arkhola Roberts QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cherokee Co Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Muskogee County

Storms near this place

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Gibson in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 3 hail. 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
October 1995HailFort Gibson-no account filed
October 1993HailFort Gibson-no account filed
October 1993HailFort Gibson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Muskogee 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
Hyde Park2.9 miles18
Wybark4.4 miles18
Bacone5.2 miles18
Muskogee7.2 miles19
Shopton7.5 miles19
Grandview Heights8.4 miles19
Pumpkin Center8.8 miles20
West Muskogee9.5 miles18

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 GibsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1018308The 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 1092958. 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.