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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.

Jet within Alfalfa County

Population over time

2 figures

Jet 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.

YearPeople Change
2010213
2020197-16 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

9 since 1993

Regional 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 burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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 June 2011Debris and open burning80 acresSalt Plains National Wildlife RefugeJET REC
10 May 2008Other causesunder an acreSalt Plains National Wildlife RefugeJET REC RV
4 April 2018Debris and open burning200 acresSalt Plains National Wildlife RefugeJET FIRE
20 April 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined26 acresSalt Plains National Wildlife RefugePICNIC
13 April 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSalt Plains National Wildlife RefugeCAR
1 April 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSalt Plains National Wildlife RefugeJET NORTH
14 March 2006Equipment and vehicle use20 acresSalt Plains National Wildlife RefugeATHEY
16 February 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSalt Plains National Wildlife RefugeENTRANCE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alfalfa County

Storms near this place

27 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2025Tornado (EF0)Jet$10,000A 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 2014Thunderstorm WindJet$10,000Significant damage to an old brick building and several downed power lines.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindJet$5,000A few power lines were downed by the severe winds. Monetary damages were estimated.
May 1999Tornado (F0)Jet$2,000no account filed
April 2026HailJet-An image of a ruler-measured hailstone was shared on social media. The event time is estimated based on radar observations.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindJet-A personal weather station observation.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindJet-Personal weather station observation.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindJet-Power lines reported down.
April 2012Tornado (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 2012Tornado (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 2008Flash FloodJet-Water was over US Highway 64 making it impassable.
April 2003Tornado (F0)Jet-A storm chaser videoed this short-lived tornado. No damage was reported.
May 2022HailJet-no account filed
May 2019HailJet-no account filed
May 2017HailJet-no account filed
May 2012HailJet-no account filed
April 2011HailJet-no account filed
July 2009HailJet-no account filed
April 2004HailJet-no account filed
August 2004HailJet-no account filed
April 2003HailJet-no account filed
May 2002HailJet-no account filed
May 2002HailJet-no account filed
March 2000Funnel CloudJet-no account filed
July 1995HailJet-no account filed
June 1995HailJet-no account filed
May 1993HailJet-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Alfalfa 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
Nescatunga6.2 miles8
Vining7.1 miles8
Goltry9.4 miles8
Helena9.5 miles9
Cherokee11.1 miles8
Yewed12.2 miles8
McWillie12.9 miles9
Lambert12.9 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 JetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3293405The 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.