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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.

Horntown within Hughes County

Population over time

3 figures

Horntown 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.

YearPeople Change
200061
201097+36 (+59%)
202092-5 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

13 since 2005

Regional 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Natural1

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
20 August 2011Natural217 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeGRAVES CREEK
4 April 2016Debris and open burning260 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeJOHNSON
9 March 2008Debris and open burning80 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeWALLET
4 March 2007Debris and open burning3.5 acresWewoka AgencyMUD HOLE
19 March 2017Debris and open burning3,756 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeCHUPCO
16 March 2018Debris and open burning144 acresOkmulgee Field OfficePEARL
13 March 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOkmulgee Field OfficeDOZER
13 March 2014Debris and open burning1,372 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeMOUNTAIN BEAR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hughes County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hughes County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2025Tornado (EF1)Horntown$75,000A tornado developed northeast of Horntown and moved east-northeast for about three miles damaging at least two buildings.
May 2025HailHorntown-The report was relayed through mPING.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindHorntown-Volunteer fire department reports several large trees down, power lines down, and barn roof removed.

Every storm recorded in Hughes 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
Cross Roads5.6 miles12
Lamar6.4 miles12
Yeager6.9 miles12
Holdenville8.0 miles12
Calvin8.2 miles13
Carson10.0 miles13
Atwood10.2 miles12
Wetumka10.4 miles13

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 HorntownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1952718The 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.