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Lamar, Oklahoma

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Holdenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74850. It stands on Lamar Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Lamar quadrangle. 118 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 764 feet above sea level.

Lamar within Hughes County

Population over time

3 figures

Lamar fell from 172 to 118 between 2000 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
2000172
2010158-14 (-8%)
2020118-40 (-25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

21 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Lamar between 2005 and 2020, burning about 15,500 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
1 August 2011Arson/incendiarism823 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeGOBBLER CREEK
11 July 2011Debris and open burning586 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeTICK HAVEN
2 April 2011Debris and open burning46 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeHUNTING LEASE
12 April 2017Debris and open burning130 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeBRUNER
7 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined700 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeCAROL
6 March 2017Debris and open burning3,128 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeIRATE
21 March 2011Debris and open burning1,126 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeOVERNIGHT
20 March 2017Debris and open burning9.6 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeWOOD PEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hughes County

Storms near this place

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lamar in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 17 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
January 1996Thunderstorm WindLamar$15,000no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindLamar$5,000Relayed images showing multiple 36-inch diameter tree limbs blown down and a barn with a wall collapsed. Time is radar estimated.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindLamar$250Several three inch diameter tree limbs were snapped.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindLamar$10A large tree was downed.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindLamar$10no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindLamar-A 12-inch diameter tree was snapped, with other smaller trees also sustaining major damage. Monetary damage estimates were not available.
March 1998Tornado (F0)Lamar-A severe thunderstorm produced a brief tornado in Lamar. Witnesses described a brief funnel that developed as the storm came across Lamar Mountain just southwest of town. This first funnel lifted and then a second funnel formed and touched down. The tornado moved north along the west edge of town for about .4 miles then veered to the northeast before lifting. On the southern end of the path, the roof was blown off a cow shed. Just north of there a travel trailer and dog house were blown over, an antenna was blown down, and a tree was uprooted. Shutters were blown off the next house to the north. About a block north of there the tornado blew the roof off a workshop and tossed a trampoline over a house. At this point the tornado turned to the northeast and destroyed a shed across from the post office and damaged a front porch. The damage path was about .6 miles long, and the tornado was rated F0.
May 1994HailLamar-Severe thunderstorms developed in portions of north-central Oklahoma during the afternoon and early evening hours on the 6th and moved south through portions of central and into southeast Oklahoma. These storms produce four weak brief tornadoes, hail up to softball-size and damaging winds. Weak tornadoes briefly touched down near Kildare at 1630 CST, four miles east-southeast of Yale at 2050 CST, two miles north-northeast of Ripley at 2112 CST, and six miles south of Stroud at 2245 CST. All of these tornadoes touched down in open fields and no damage was reported. Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a well house eight miles southeast of Newkirk, destroyed a barn three miles north of Yale and just north of Yale, downed power lines one and one-half miles east of Yale and one mile west of Kaw City, and downed tree limbs in Cromwell.
March 2016HailLamar-no account filed
April 2011HailLamar-no account filed
April 2011HailLamar-no account filed
July 2009HailLamar-no account filed
April 2008HailLamar-no account filed
March 2008HailLamar-no account filed
May 2008HailLamar-no account filed
May 2006HailLamar-no account filed
April 2005HailLamar-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindLamar-no account filed
May 2003HailLamar-no account filed
March 2000HailLamar-no account filed
March 2000HailLamar-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindLamar-no account filed
May 1998HailLamar-no account filed
October 1998HailLamar-no account filed
March 1996HailLamar-no account filed
October 1995HailLamar-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hughes 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
Carson5.0 miles13
Horntown6.4 miles12
Cross Roads9.0 miles12
Calvin11.1 miles13
Wetumka11.3 miles13
Yeager11.9 miles12
Dustin12.9 miles14
Stuart13.8 miles13

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 LamarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3287546The 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 1094486. 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.