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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.

Hitchcock within Blaine County

Population over time

2 figures

Hitchcock 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.

YearPeople Change
2010121
2020102-19 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

2 since 2005

Regional 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 burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
3 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresConcho Field OfficeGARRIOTT
2 June 2008Debris and open burning40 acresConcho Field OfficeHITCHCOCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blaine County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bucher-1Copper, Vanadium, Titanium, MetalOccurrence1962
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer
Hitchcock-1CopperOccurrenceMalachite
Atlas Gypsum PitGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Atlas Gypsum PitGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Atlas Gypsum PitGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Atlas Gypsum PitGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Atlas Gypsum PitGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Atlas Gypsum PitGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Atlas Gypsum PitGypsum-AnhydriteProducer

Every working recorded in Blaine County

Storms near this place

10 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2003Thunderstorm WindHitchcock$100,000A metal grain elevator was heavily damaged.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindHitchcock$25,000Relayed 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 2009HailHitchcock-Nickel- to quarter-size hail was reported.
May 2024HailHitchcock-no account filed
May 2011HailHitchcock-no account filed
May 2009HailHitchcock-no account filed
June 2009HailHitchcock-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindHitchcock-no account filed
June 1998HailHitchcock-no account filed
February 1995HailHitchcock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Blaine 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
Bucher3.8 miles7
Southard9.0 miles9
Darrow9.2 miles9
Watonga9.2 miles7
Carlton9.4 miles8
Carleton9.7 miles8
Okeene10.3 miles8
Homestead12.7 miles8

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 HitchcockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2455839The 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.