Horntown, Oklahoma
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Holdenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74848. The Survey maps it on the Lamar quadrangle. 92 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 843 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresHorntown grew from 61 to 92 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 | 61 | |
| 2010 | 97 | +36 (+59%) |
| 2020 | 92 | -5 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1900 USGS Wewoka quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Lamar quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Shawnee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Horntown between 2005 and 2020, burning about 9,282 acres in total. 1 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 | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 August 2011 | Natural | 217 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | GRAVES CREEK |
| 4 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 260 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | JOHNSON |
| 9 March 2008 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | WALLET |
| 4 March 2007 | Debris and open burning | 3.5 acres | Wewoka Agency | MUD HOLE |
| 19 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3,756 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | CHUPCO |
| 16 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 144 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | PEARL |
| 13 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Okmulgee Field Office | DOZER |
| 13 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1,372 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | MOUNTAIN BEAR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Horntown: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Shale Pit | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Horntown in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Tornado (EF1) | Horntown | $75,000 | A tornado developed northeast of Horntown and moved east-northeast for about three miles damaging at least two buildings. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Horntown | - | The report was relayed through mPING. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horntown | - | Volunteer fire department reports several large trees down, power lines down, and barn roof removed. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cross Roads | 5.6 miles | 12 | |
| Lamar | 6.4 miles | 12 | |
| Yeager | 6.9 miles | 12 | |
| Holdenville | 8.0 miles | 12 | |
| Calvin | 8.2 miles | 13 | |
| Carson | 10.0 miles | 13 | |
| Atwood | 10.2 miles | 12 | |
| Wetumka | 10.4 miles | 13 |
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 Horntown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1952718 | 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 1093929. 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.





