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.
Population over time
3 figuresLamar 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 172 | |
| 2010 | 158 | -14 (-8%) |
| 2020 | 118 | -40 (-25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1900 USGS Wewoka quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Lamar quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Shawnee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
21 since 2005Regional 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 burning | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 August 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 823 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | GOBBLER CREEK |
| 11 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 586 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | TICK HAVEN |
| 2 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 46 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | HUNTING LEASE |
| 12 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 130 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | BRUNER |
| 7 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 700 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | CAROL |
| 6 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3,128 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | IRATE |
| 21 March 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1,126 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | OVERNIGHT |
| 20 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 9.6 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | WOOD PEN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
26 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lamar | $15,000 | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lamar | $5,000 | Relayed images showing multiple 36-inch diameter tree limbs blown down and a barn with a wall collapsed. Time is radar estimated. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lamar | $250 | Several three inch diameter tree limbs were snapped. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lamar | $10 | A large tree was downed. |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lamar | $10 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lamar | - | A 12-inch diameter tree was snapped, with other smaller trees also sustaining major damage. Monetary damage estimates were not available. |
| March 1998 | Tornado (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 1994 | Hail | Lamar | - | 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 2016 | Hail | Lamar | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Lamar | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Lamar | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Lamar | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Lamar | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Lamar | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Lamar | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Lamar | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Lamar | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lamar | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Lamar | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Lamar | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Lamar | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lamar | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Lamar | - | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Hail | Lamar | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Lamar | - | no account filed |
| October 1995 | Hail | Lamar | - | 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 Lamar | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3287546 | 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 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.





