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Langston, Oklahoma

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the East Logan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73027. The Survey maps it on the Langston quadrangle. 1,619 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 958 feet above sea level.

Langston within Logan County

On record in Langston

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Langston fell from 1,724 to 1,619 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
20101,724
20201,619-105 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Langston in 2006, burning about 4 acres in total. 1 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
Natural1

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
15 February 2006Natural4.0 acresPawnee AgencyLANGSTON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Storms near this place

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Langston in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 11 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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
May 2019Flash FloodLangston$10,000Report that old Hwy 33 and Henney road is washed out.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindLangston$4,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLangston$750A tree along with some limbs were downed.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindLangston-Relayed video. Estimated wind gust.
May 2019HailLangston-Time based on radar.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindLangston-Trees downed in Langston.
May 2019HailLangston-Nickel sized hail at OK-33 and Henney Rd.
April 2009Tornado (EF1)Langston-A brief tornado struck a group of four homes near Langston. All four homes sustained significant damage, including a two story home where the second floor was destroyed. Significant roof damage was noted on the other homes, as well as damage to walls and windows. The tornado caused significant damage to trees and power poles, including several that had been snapped. A few outbuildings and sheds were also heavily damaged at this location. No injuries were reported with the tornado. Damage estimates were not given.
May 2002Flash FloodLangston-Flash flooding was reported on Highway 33.
April 2024HailLangston-no account filed
May 2017HailLangston-no account filed
May 2017HailLangston-no account filed
May 2017HailLangston-no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindLangston-no account filed
April 2009HailLangston-no account filed
May 2009HailLangston-no account filed
October 2007HailLangston-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindLangston-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindLangston-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindLangston-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindLangston-no account filed
September 1996HailLangston-no account filed
April 1994HailLangston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Coyle1.4 miles11
Pleasant Valley3.9 miles10
Frost4.2 miles11
Goodnight6.1 miles11
Iconium6.3 miles11
Meridian7.1 miles11
Lawrie8.9 miles10
Guthrie10.1 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 LangstonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q534059The 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 1094506. 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.