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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.

Gate within Beaver County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Gate 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.

YearPeople Change
201093
202060-33 (-35%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Beaver Pit #1PumiceProducer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Caliche PitLimestone, GeneralUnknown
Unknown Caliche PitLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Unknown Caliche PitLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Beaver County

Storms near this place

34 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2001Thunderstorm WindGate$100,000A 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 2025Thunderstorm WindGate$28,000Irrigation pivots were blown over and tree damage occurred in Gate.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindGate$20,000Thunderstorm 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 2000Flash FloodGate$8,000Flooding of ranchland and farmland along with water into a couple of homes was reported.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindGate$3,000A 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 2023Tornado (EF0)Gate$2,000This 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 2018Thunderstorm WindGate-A metal roof blown off a building. Damage to some out buildings and a broken power pole with lines down.
May 2008HailGate-Quarter to half dollar size hail was reported to be covering the ground.
April 2005HailGate-Associated with a second severe storms which moved over the area.
March 1995HailGate-Hail in eastern Beaver County reported by cooperative observer and spotters with Beaver County emergency management team.
June 1995HailGate-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 2020HailGate-no account filed
June 2016HailGate-no account filed
June 2012HailGate-no account filed
June 2012HailGate-no account filed
June 2009HailGate-no account filed
June 2008HailGate-no account filed
June 2008HailGate-no account filed
May 2006HailGate-no account filed
August 2006HailGate-no account filed
April 2005HailGate-no account filed
April 2005HailGate-no account filed
April 2005HailGate-no account filed
June 2005HailGate-no account filed
June 2005HailGate-no account filed
April 2001HailGate-no account filed
May 2001HailGate-no account filed
September 2001HailGate-no account filed
September 2001HailGate-no account filed
June 2000HailGate-no account filed
June 2000HailGate-no account filed
June 2000HailGate-no account filed
June 1999HailGate-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindGate-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beaver 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
Knowles7.4 miles7
Clear Lake16.1 miles7
Slapout16.6 miles7
Mocane17.0 miles7
Logan21.2 miles7
Beaver24.7 miles7
Forgan25.9 miles7
Sophia28.8 miles8

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 GateAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2708964The 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.