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Gotebo, Oklahoma

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Mountain View census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73041. The Survey maps it on the Gotebo East quadrangle. 174 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,444 feet above sea level.

Gotebo within Kiowa County

Population over time

2 figures

Gotebo fell from 226 to 174 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
2010226
2020174-52 (-23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

Fires near this place

9 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Gotebo between 2001 and 2020, burning about 300 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4

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
1 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use17 acresAnadarko AgencyTAPMAH
1 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.5 acresAnadarko AgencyHODDLEPU
1 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAnadarko AgencyCOURTNEY
1 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAnadarko AgencyCOUNTYLINE
5 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryGOTEBO
24 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined32 acresAnadarko AgencyRAINEY MOUNTAIN
20 October 2014Equipment and vehicle use2.8 acresAnadarko AgencyHANDGRINDER FIRE
24 January 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresAnadarko AgencyHANDGRINDER 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kiowa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Gotebo: 10 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dolese Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dolese Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dolese Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kiowa County

Storms near this place

55 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gotebo in 55 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 46 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2001Tornado (F1)Gotebo$10,000D2. Kiowa County portion. This multiple-vortex tornado developed 1 mile north of Gotebo, resulting in mostly minor tree damage before crossing into Washita County at 1649 CST. F1 damage was observed, however, 5 miles west of Mountain View, where a wood-frame barn was heavily damage.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindGotebo$5,000Highway poles downed at US 54 and 1360.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindGotebo$5,000no account filed
April 2026HailGotebo-The report was relayed through mPING.
May 2024HailGotebo-MPing report. Additional confirmation from broadcast media livestream of at least baseball size hail.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindGotebo-Time is radar estimated.
May 2024HailGotebo-At least tennis ball size hail noted on livestream video.
May 2019Flash FloodGotebo-Water over the roadway.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindGotebo-Estimated at the 54 truck stop.
May 2011HailGotebo-An off-duty NWS meteorologist, working as part of a hail research team reported a six inch diameter hailstone two miles north of Gotebo. The hailstone caused significant damage to one of the team's vehicles. Further investigation and discussion with the Oklahoma State Climatologist confirmed that this hailstone is the largest hailstone on record in Oklahoma.
October 2010HailGotebo-Lots of penny-sized hail was reported.
April 2004HailGotebo-Hail was reported covering the ground.
May 1997Funnel CloudGotebo-A long, horizontal funnel cloud extended into the clear slot of the storm. No wall cloud was observed.
June 2017HailGotebo-no account filed
April 2015HailGotebo-no account filed
April 2014HailGotebo-no account filed
May 2011HailGotebo-no account filed
May 2011HailGotebo-no account filed
May 2011HailGotebo-no account filed
May 2011HailGotebo-no account filed
May 2011HailGotebo-no account filed
March 2008HailGotebo-no account filed
October 2007HailGotebo-no account filed
August 2006HailGotebo-no account filed
February 2005HailGotebo-no account filed
May 2004HailGotebo-no account filed
May 2004HailGotebo-no account filed
May 2004HailGotebo-no account filed
April 2003HailGotebo-no account filed
April 2003HailGotebo-no account filed
April 2003HailGotebo-no account filed
April 2003HailGotebo-no account filed
June 2003HailGotebo-no account filed
May 2003HailGotebo-no account filed
May 2003HailGotebo-no account filed
May 2003HailGotebo-no account filed
May 2001HailGotebo-no account filed
October 2001HailGotebo-no account filed
March 2000HailGotebo-no account filed
March 2000HailGotebo-no account filed
April 2000HailGotebo-no account filed
April 2000HailGotebo-no account filed
April 2000HailGotebo-no account filed
September 2000HailGotebo-no account filed
September 2000HailGotebo-no account filed
March 1999HailGotebo-no account filed
December 1999HailGotebo-no account filed
May 1999HailGotebo-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindGotebo-no account filed
May 1996HailGotebo-no account filed
April 1996HailGotebo-no account filed
June 1995Tornado (F0)Gotebo-no account filed
March 1995HailGotebo-no account filed
October 1994HailGotebo-no account filed
April 1994HailGotebo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kiowa 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
Komalty6.5 miles9
Mountain View6.9 miles8
Sedan9.0 miles13
Hobart12.0 miles9
Babbs13.0 miles9
Cooperton14.0 miles13
Roosevelt17.2 miles8
Cambridge17.7 miles9

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 GoteboAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2844182The 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 1093272. 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.