BlockBefore

Hickory, Oklahoma

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the East Murray census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74865. The Survey maps it on the Roff South quadrangle. 86 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,207 feet above sea level.

Hickory within Murray County

Population over time

3 figures

Hickory fell from 87 to 86 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.

YearPeople Change
200087
201071-16 (-18%)
202086+15 (+21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Hickory between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,351 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresChickasaw National Recreation AreaWATERSON #2
8 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresChickasaw National Recreation AreaMILLCREEK2
5 August 2003Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresChickasaw AgencyJACOBSFIRE
2 August 2019Natural2.5 acresChickasaw National Recreation AreaGRIMM
31 July 2019Natural20 acresChickasaw National Recreation AreaRAILROAD
30 July 1993Debris and open burning3.0 acresChickasaw National Recreation AreaPOWELL
23 July 2006Debris and open burning10 acresChickasaw AgencyPOWELL ROAD
23 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresChickasaw AgencyGRISSOM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Murray County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Hickory: 9 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Oklahoma Glass Sand Co Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Oklahoma Glass Sand Co Sand 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 Murray County

Storms near this place

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hickory in 13 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 7 hail, 3 tornado, 3 flash flood. 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
April 1996Tornado (F0)Hickory$500A second brief tornado touched down, resulting in damage to barns and 2 silos southwest of Hickory.
April 1996Tornado (F0)Hickory$500no account filed
April 2024Flash FloodHickory-National Weather Service Meteorologists, in the process of conducting tornado damage surveys on April 28th, observed a portion of Koller Road washed out due to flooding from the previous evening. Event time is approximate.
May 2017Flash FloodHickory-Flood waters were over highway 1.
November 2011Flash FloodHickory-A few homes were flooded along 10th Street and along 15th Street near Muskogee and Vinitia Streets. The athletic complex in town was also flooded.
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Hickory-Numerous storm chasers observed a multiple vortex tornado develop east of Hickory and move east-northeast into southeastern Pontotoc County. There was no known damage in Murray County.
March 2023HailHickory-no account filed
April 2021HailHickory-no account filed
April 2011HailHickory-no account filed
May 2003HailHickory-no account filed
March 1998HailHickory-no account filed
March 1998HailHickory-no account filed
March 1993HailHickory-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Murray 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
Denny1.2 miles13
Scullin2.6 miles13
Winrock Farms3.0 miles13
Sulphur6.6 miles13
Oak Grove6.9 miles13
Iona9.9 miles15
Chigley11.8 miles15
Drake12.0 miles14

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 HickoryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3193631The 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 1093695. 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.