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Hydro, Oklahoma

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It lies in ZIP code area 73048. The Survey maps it on the Hydro quadrangle. 927 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,555 feet above sea level.

Hydro within Blaine County

Population over time

2 figures

Hydro fell from 969 to 927 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
2010969
2020927-42 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Hydro between 1998 and 2020, burning about 493 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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
2 August 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresConcho Field OfficeBIKE
11 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresConcho Field OfficeDEAD WOMAN
4 July 2005Fireworks1.0 acresConcho Field OfficeCADDO
9 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined340 acresAnadarko AgencyWEST COUNTY LINE
2 May 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreConcho Field OfficeWILBURN
30 March 2009Debris and open burning60 acresConcho Field OfficeTIN STAR
14 March 2008Debris and open burning60 acresConcho Field OfficeWILSON
5 January 2006Smoking1.0 acresConcho Field OfficeHALE

Every fire recorded in Blaine County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hydro: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Blaine County

Storms near this place

4 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hydro in 4 storm reports between 1993 and 1997: 4 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
July 1995Thunderstorm WindHydro$50,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindHydro$500Severe winds damaged several buildings, including blowing a door off a barn.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindHydro-no account filed
December 1993Thunderstorm WindHydro-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
Geary14.9 miles10
Greenfield16.3 miles11
Watonga22.2 miles7
Eagle City26.5 miles9
Bucher27.7 miles7
Hitchcock31.4 miles7
Carlton32.3 miles8
Carleton32.3 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 HydroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2974873The 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 1094039. 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.