Hitchita, Oklahoma
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Hitchita-Pierce census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74438. It stands on Putty Creek. The Survey maps it on the Morris quadrangle. 60 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 650 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHitchita fell from 88 to 60 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 | 88 | |
| 2020 | 60 | -28 (-32%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1896 USGS Okmulgee quadrangle1:125000
- 1900 USGS Okmulgee quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Morris quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Muskogee quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
20 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Hitchita between 2005 and 2016, burning about 4,527 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 67 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | TRACTOR |
| 20 July 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Okmulgee Field Office | HITCH BALER |
| 1 April 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 19 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | HITCH STOP |
| 9 March 2005 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | COUNC HILL |
| 4 March 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 23 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | LESSON |
| 31 March 2010 | Debris and open burning | 8.4 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | HITCH CHURCH |
| 31 March 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 118 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | HITCH POWER |
| 2 March 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Okmulgee Field Office | CORNER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
30 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hitchita in 30 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 18 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hitchita | $111,000 | Thunderstorm wind resulted in at least $111,000 in debris removal and damage to the utility infrastructure across the county during this severe thunderstorm. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Hitchita | $20,000 | The F0 tornado that touched down northeast of Grayson in Okmulgee county traveled northeast into McIntosh county and lifted 3.8 miles west northwest of Hitchita. The tornado occurred in a rural area and produced tree damage and destroyed a barn. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hitchita | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs. |
| September 2009 | Flash Flood | Hitchita | - | A highway just southwest of Hitchita was flooded due to heavy rain. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Hitchita | - | Heavy rains caused rural roads near Hitchita to be flooded. Street flooding was also reported in the city of Hitchita. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Hitchita | - | Heavy rain caused water to flow over secondary roads. |
| May 1998 | Flash Flood | Hitchita | - | US Hwy 266 was under water 2 miles east of Hitchita near Gaines Creek. |
| March 2014 | Hail | Hitchita | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Hitchita | - | no account filed |
| January 2008 | Hail | Hitchita | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Hitchita | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Hitchita | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Hitchita | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Hitchita | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Hitchita | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Hitchita | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hitchita | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Hitchita | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Hitchita | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hitchita | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hitchita | - | no account filed |
| January 1996 | Hail | Hitchita | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Hitchita | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Hitchita | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hitchita | - | no account filed |
| February 1995 | Hail | Hitchita | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Hitchita | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Hitchita | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Hitchita | - | no account filed |
| September 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hitchita | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richardsville | 4.7 miles | 16 | |
| Pierce | 6.2 miles | 16 | |
| Brush Hill | 9.5 miles | 16 | |
| Lenna | 9.9 miles | 14 | |
| Stidham | 10.8 miles | 15 | |
| Fame | 12.2 miles | 15 | |
| Checotah | 12.6 miles | 15 | |
| Onapa | 13.1 miles | 15 |
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 Hitchita | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2063714 | 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 1093800. 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.
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.







