Foyil, Oklahoma
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Claremore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74017. The Survey maps it on the Foyil quadrangle. 368 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 761 feet above sea level.
On record in Foyil
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
Ed Galloway's Totem Pole Parklisted 1999
Population over time
3 figuresFoyil grew from 234 to 368 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 234 | |
| 2010 | 344 | +110 (+47%) |
| 2020 | 368 | +24 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 19 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.
- 1901 USGS Claremore quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1914 USGS Claremore quadrangle1:125000
- 1916 USGS Claremore quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Foyil quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
8 of 9 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 Rogers County
Fires near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Foyil in 2010, burning about 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 April 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 30240 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Foyil: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leco Materials Co Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
32 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Foyil in 32 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 15 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foyil | 1 hurt, $50,000 | Law enforcement reported 65 mile an hour winds at Foyil. This wind caused damage to trees and power poles. The winds also blew down a metal shed at the football stadium. The falling shed injured a four year old girl who was at the location to watch a scrimmage. The girl was transported to the nearest hospital to be treated. |
| May 2009 | Flash Flood | Foyil | $25,000 | Heavy rain caused flash flooding across the northeast part of Rogers County during the morning hours of the 1st. Highway 28 on the southeast side of Chelsea had to be closed and numerous county roads had to be closed. Water also entered some businesses in the city of Chelsea. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foyil | $25,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour blew the roof off one mobile home and blew another mobile home off its foundation. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Foyil | $20,000 | Golf ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles. |
| March 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Foyil | $20,000 | A garage was heavily damaged by an F1 tornado. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported a tornado 4 miles west of Chelsea near Allen Point. Several mobile homes in the Spencer Creek mobile home park sustained roof and siding damage. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foyil | $20,000 | A mobile home was blown onto a highway and destroyed. However, it should be noted that the mobile home had not yet been tied down. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Foyil | $15,000 | Golf ball size hail damaged vehicles and homes. |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foyil | $10,000 | Numerous trees were uprooted or blown down. Several trees were blown over onto power lines. Tree limbs were blown into roads. At the Washington Cemetery, grave markers were blown over and large trees were uprooted. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foyil | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour blew a porch off a house. Trees were also blown down. |
| March 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Foyil | $5,000 | A brief F1-tornado touchdown ripped the roof off of a block house. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Foyil | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2015 | Hail | Foyil | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foyil | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foyil | $2,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down power poles. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foyil | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down numerous trees and power lines. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foyil | $100 | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs in Chelsea. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foyil | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Foyil | - | Penny size hail fell at Chelsea. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foyil | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a large tree. |
| December 2003 | Hail | Foyil | - | Penny size hail was reported at Chelsea. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foyil | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew large tree limbs down. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foyil | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew large tree limbs down in Chelsea. |
| December 2002 | Hail | Foyil | - | Nickel size hail fell at Chelsea. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Foyil | - | Quarter size hail was reported in Chelsea. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Foyil | - | no account filed |
| November 2022 | Hail | Foyil | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Foyil | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Foyil | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Foyil | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Foyil | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foyil | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Foyil | - | 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 Foyil | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2512255 | 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 1100428. 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.







