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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.

Jefferson within Grant County

Population over time

2 figures

Jefferson 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.

YearPeople Change
201012
20209-3 (-25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

21 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2025Thunderstorm WindJefferson$25,000At 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 1998Thunderstorm WindJefferson$4,000no account filed
May 1998Tornado (F0)Jefferson$1,000no account filed
September 2008Heavy RainJefferson-The measured rainfall was 3.62 inches, much of it falling in a six to eight hour period.
August 2003Flash FloodJefferson-Eighteen inches of water were reported over streets.
March 2019HailJefferson-no account filed
May 2016HailJefferson-no account filed
February 2011HailJefferson-no account filed
August 2009HailJefferson-no account filed
April 2009HailJefferson-no account filed
April 2009HailJefferson-no account filed
June 2005HailJefferson-no account filed
April 2004HailJefferson-no account filed
August 2004HailJefferson-no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindJefferson-no account filed
September 2001HailJefferson-no account filed
April 1999HailJefferson-no account filed
May 1998HailJefferson-no account filed
July 1995HailJefferson-no account filed
April 1994HailJefferson-no account filed
April 1994HailJefferson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Pond Creek3.6 miles10
Medford6.7 miles11
Clyde8.8 miles10
Gilbert9.6 miles11
Numa11.3 miles11
Salt Fork12.2 miles10
Hawley12.3 miles8
Lamont12.6 miles10

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 JeffersonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2109340The 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.