Jefferson, Oklahoma
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Medford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73759. It stands on Osage Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pond Creek quadrangle. 9 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,047 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresJefferson fell from 12 to 9 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 | 12 | |
| 2020 | 9 | -3 (-25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 10 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.
- 1955 USGS Enid quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Enid quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Pond Creek quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Ponca City quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Jefferson: 2 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
21 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jefferson in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 15 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jefferson | $25,000 | At least twelve power poles were snapped along U.S. Highway 81 between the communities of Pond Creek and Medford. The location is approximate, and the event time is estimated from radar observations. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jefferson | $4,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Jefferson | $1,000 | no account filed |
| September 2008 | Heavy Rain | Jefferson | - | The measured rainfall was 3.62 inches, much of it falling in a six to eight hour period. |
| August 2003 | Flash Flood | Jefferson | - | Eighteen inches of water were reported over streets. |
| March 2019 | Hail | Jefferson | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Jefferson | - | no account filed |
| February 2011 | Hail | Jefferson | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Jefferson | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Jefferson | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Jefferson | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Jefferson | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Jefferson | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Jefferson | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jefferson | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Jefferson | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Jefferson | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Jefferson | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Jefferson | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Jefferson | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Jefferson | - | 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.
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 Jefferson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2109340 | 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 1094188. 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.
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.



