Hitchcock, Oklahoma
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Watonga census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73744. The Survey maps it on the Hitchcock quadrangle. 102 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,286 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHitchcock fell from 121 to 102 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 | 102 | -19 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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 Clinton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Hitchcock quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Watonga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Hitchcock between 2005 and 2008, burning about 42 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 June 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Concho Field Office | GARRIOTT |
| 2 June 2008 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Concho Field Office | HITCHCOCK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 18 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Hitchcock: 14 producers, 2 occurrences, 2 past producers. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Copper, Vanadium, Titanium, Metal, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bucher-1 | Copper, Vanadium, Titanium, Metal | Occurrence | 1962 | |
| Unknown Shale Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Hitchcock-1 | Copper | Occurrence | Malachite | |
| Atlas Gypsum Pit | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Producer | ||
| Atlas Gypsum Pit | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Producer | ||
| Atlas Gypsum Pit | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Producer | ||
| Atlas Gypsum Pit | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Producer | ||
| Atlas Gypsum Pit | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Producer | ||
| Atlas Gypsum Pit | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Producer | ||
| Atlas Gypsum Pit | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hitchcock in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 7 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hitchcock | $100,000 | A metal grain elevator was heavily damaged. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hitchcock | $25,000 | Relayed images courtesy of the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management show a wooden patio awning blown off of a house. The event time is estimated from radar observations. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Hitchcock | - | Nickel- to quarter-size hail was reported. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Hitchcock | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Hitchcock | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Hitchcock | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Hitchcock | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hitchcock | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Hitchcock | - | no account filed |
| February 1995 | Hail | Hitchcock | - | 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 Hitchcock | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2455839 | 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 1093799. 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.



