Jet, Oklahoma
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Cherokee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73749. The Survey maps it on the Jet quadrangle. 197 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,243 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresJet fell from 213 to 197 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 | 213 | |
| 2020 | 197 | -16 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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 Woodward quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Woodward quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS Jet quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Alva quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Alva quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
9 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Jet between 1993 and 2018, burning about 451 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 burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 June 2011 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge | JET REC |
| 10 May 2008 | Other causes | under an acre | Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge | JET REC RV |
| 4 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 200 acres | Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge | JET FIRE |
| 20 April 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 26 acres | Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge | PICNIC |
| 13 April 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge | CAR |
| 1 April 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge | JET NORTH |
| 14 March 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge | ATHEY |
| 16 February 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge | ENTRANCE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
27 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jet in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 15 hail, 5 tornado, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 | Tornado (EF0) | Jet | $10,000 | A tornado damaged a barn in southeastern Alfalfa County along County Road E0230 to the west of County Road N2740. The tornado moved northeast for about 2 miles. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jet | $10,000 | Significant damage to an old brick building and several downed power lines. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jet | $5,000 | A few power lines were downed by the severe winds. Monetary damages were estimated. |
| May 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Jet | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Hail | Jet | - | An image of a ruler-measured hailstone was shared on social media. The event time is estimated based on radar observations. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jet | - | A personal weather station observation. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jet | - | Personal weather station observation. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jet | - | Power lines reported down. |
| April 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Jet | - | Alfalfa County Emergency Management and KFOR-TV reported a tornado that formed on the south side of the Great Salt Plains Lake and moved north across the lake. The only reported damage was to an outbuilding on the edge of the lake. The specific path was estimated. |
| April 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Jet | - | Alfalfa County emergency management and a KFOR-TV chaser reported a brief tornado, with no damage reported. The tornado was observed to be just south of U.S. Highway 64 approximately 2.5 miles west of Jet. |
| September 2008 | Flash Flood | Jet | - | Water was over US Highway 64 making it impassable. |
| April 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Jet | - | A storm chaser videoed this short-lived tornado. No damage was reported. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Jet | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Jet | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Jet | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Jet | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Jet | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Jet | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Jet | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Jet | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Jet | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Jet | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Jet | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Funnel Cloud | Jet | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Jet | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Jet | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | Jet | - | 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 Jet | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3293405 | 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 1094222. 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.
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.




