Hillsdale, Oklahoma
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the North Garfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73743. The Survey maps it on the Hillsdale quadrangle. 75 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,230 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHillsdale fell from 121 to 75 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 | 121 | |
| 2020 | 75 | -46 (-38%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 11 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.
- 1955 USGS Enid quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Enid quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Hillsdale quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Ponca City quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Hillsdale: 5 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Barnes Prospect | Copper | Occurrence | 1900 | |
| Liming Prospect | Copper | Occurrence | 1921 | |
| Native Copper Prospect | Copper | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
46 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillsdale in 46 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 31 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2018 | Lightning | Hillsdale | $100,000 | Eight tank batteries were on fire with explosions still occurring at the time of the report. Time approximated based on radar. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsdale | $40,000 | A trailer was flipped over by damaging straight line winds. |
| March 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Hillsdale | $15,000 | The tornado initially touched down 3 miles west of Hillsdale causing damage. Several trees had been snapped and large limbs were broken. A wooden shed had parts of its roof and part of an overhang removed. The pieces of the overhang and roof were lying to the south 200 ft and to the east about 250 ft. Several sections of a metal gate (the sections were not attached to any fence) were blown approximately 25 feet. A small hay shed was also destroyed during the storm. One mile north of this location a metal gate had been blown over. The tornado moved north, crossing into Grant county before lifting 4 miles SSE of Nash. The tornado in Garfield produced EF0 damage, causing an estimated $15 thousand in damages. | |
| April 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Hillsdale | $5,000 | Garfield County Emergency Management reported tree and power pole damage at Hillsdale. |
| February 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsdale | $5,000 | A roof was removed from a trailer in Hillsdale. Time was estimated via radar. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsdale | $3,000 | Power poles were downed. |
| September 2025 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | The location is approximate. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | Hail damage to homes, including windows broken out. Time is radar estimated. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | Time is radar estimated. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Hillsdale | - | Water observed over Keowee road. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Hillsdale | - | Six inches of water on Buffalo road in Hillsdale. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Hillsdale | - | Closing Keowee road between due to flowing water. |
| June 2018 | Flood | Hillsdale | - | Flooding of low lying areas reported. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | No damage was reported. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsdale | - | No damage was reported with the wind gust. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | Strong winds were also reported with hail, puncturing holes in the siding of a building. Damage to the area wheat crop was also reported. Monetary damage estimates were not available. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | Nickel- to quarter-size hail was reported. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | The hail was reported by an University of Oklahoma research meteorologist. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Hillsdale | - | Several county roads were closed due to high water. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | Occasional hail lasted for about 45 minutes. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsdale | - | Severe thunderstorm winds estimated at 75 mph downed power lines on Highway 32. |
| September 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsdale | - | Severe thunderstorms in northern Oklahoma produced winds as strong as 80 mph and hail as large as quarters in Byron in Alfalfa County. One-inch hail was also reported in Medford in Grant County. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Hillsdale | - | 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 Hillsdale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q256441 | 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 1093780. 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.



