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.
Population over time
3 figuresHickory 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 87 | |
| 2010 | 71 | -16 (-18%) |
| 2020 | 86 | +15 (+21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 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 Stonewall quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Ardmore quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Ardmore quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Roff South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1990 USGS Ada quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
25 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 acres | Chickasaw National Recreation Area | WATERSON #2 |
| 8 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Chickasaw National Recreation Area | MILLCREEK2 |
| 5 August 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Chickasaw Agency | JACOBSFIRE |
| 2 August 2019 | Natural | 2.5 acres | Chickasaw National Recreation Area | GRIMM |
| 31 July 2019 | Natural | 20 acres | Chickasaw National Recreation Area | RAILROAD |
| 30 July 1993 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Chickasaw National Recreation Area | POWELL |
| 23 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Chickasaw Agency | POWELL ROAD |
| 23 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Chickasaw Agency | GRISSOM |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Limestone Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sandstone Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Oklahoma Glass Sand Co Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Oklahoma Glass Sand Co Sand 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 | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
13 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Hickory | $500 | A second brief tornado touched down, resulting in damage to barns and 2 silos southwest of Hickory. |
| April 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Hickory | $500 | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Flash Flood | Hickory | - | 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 2017 | Flash Flood | Hickory | - | Flood waters were over highway 1. |
| November 2011 | Flash Flood | Hickory | - | 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 2011 | Tornado (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 2023 | Hail | Hickory | - | no account filed |
| April 2021 | Hail | Hickory | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Hickory | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Hickory | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Hickory | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Hickory | - | no account filed |
| March 1993 | Hail | Hickory | - | 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 Hickory | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3193631 | 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 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.




