Gate, Oklahoma
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the North Beaver census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73844. The Survey maps it on the Gate quadrangle. 60 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,267 feet above sea level.
On record in Gate
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
Gate Schoollisted 1999
Population over time
2 figuresGate fell from 93 to 60 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 | 93 | |
| 2020 | 60 | -33 (-35%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Perryton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Perryton quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Gate quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Beaver quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Gate: 3 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaver Pit #1 | Pumice | Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Caliche Pit | Limestone, General | Unknown | ||
| Unknown Caliche Pit | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Caliche Pit | Limestone, General | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
34 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gate in 34 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 26 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gate | $100,000 | A tremendous amount of tree damage and structural damage...including roofs blown off of barns and sheds. Roof damage was reported on several houses and tin walls and roofs blown off of several buildings. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gate | $28,000 | Irrigation pivots were blown over and tree damage occurred in Gate. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gate | $20,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts...estimated between fifty-two knots and sixty-one knots...knocked over an irrigation pivot and also some large tree limbs were blown down. No injuries were reported. The time of occurrence was estimated. |
| October 2000 | Flash Flood | Gate | $8,000 | Flooding of ranchland and farmland along with water into a couple of homes was reported. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gate | $3,000 | A discrete thunderstorm moved across the eastern Oklahoma Panhandle during the late night hours of the 27th. As this thunderstorm neared the city of Gate (Beaver County), the core of the storm descended and produced a downburst. The wind gust produced by this downburst blew oil field tanks several feet onto a county road as reported by the Beaver County Fire Department. The thunderstorm continued to move to the northeast after producing this downburst. |
| June 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Gate | $2,000 | This tornado developed just inside the Beaver-Harper county line. It caused some roof damage and tree damage to a home before crossing into Harper County. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gate | - | A metal roof blown off a building. Damage to some out buildings and a broken power pole with lines down. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Gate | - | Quarter to half dollar size hail was reported to be covering the ground. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Gate | - | Associated with a second severe storms which moved over the area. |
| March 1995 | Hail | Gate | - | Hail in eastern Beaver County reported by cooperative observer and spotters with Beaver County emergency management team. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Gate | - | The Oklahoma Highway Patrol and VORTEX storm chasers reported the hail. Most of the damage occurred to vehicles caught on the road with a few buildings receiving roof damaged as well. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Gate | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Gate | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Gate | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Gate | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Gate | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Gate | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Gate | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Gate | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Gate | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Gate | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Gate | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Gate | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Gate | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Gate | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Gate | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Gate | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Gate | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Gate | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Gate | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Gate | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Gate | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Gate | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gate | - | 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 Gate | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2708964 | 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 1093146. 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.
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.



