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Leedey, Oklahoma

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Taloga-Leedey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73654. The Survey maps it on the Leedey quadrangle. 415 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,070 feet above sea level.

Leedey within Dewey County

Population over time

2 figures

Leedey fell from 435 to 415 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
2010435
2020415-20 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Leedey in 2007, burning about 120 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
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
16 October 2007Equipment and vehicle use120 acresConcho Field OfficeLEEDEY ASSIST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dewey County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Leedey: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dewey County

Storms near this place

40 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leedey in 40 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 24 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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 2025Thunderstorm WindLeedey$50,000Relayed images courtesy of the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management show widespread thunderstorm wind damage in the community of Leedey. This included numerous large trees snapped or uprooted along with roof damage to at least one building. The location is approximate, and the event time is estimated from radar observations.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLeedey$500Three inch diameter tree limbs from a live apricot tree were downed.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindLeedey$10no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindLeedey$10no account filed
March 2026HailLeedey-The location is approximate, and the event time is estimated based on radar observations.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindLeedey-No damage reported.
May 2015Tornado (EF1)Leedey-A tornado developed north-northeast of Leedey damaging a mobile home, barn and well house.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindLeedey-Mobile home blown over and others damaged.
May 2013HailLeedey-Spotters reported 2 hail at this time, as well as 1.5 hail 8 minutes earlier.
April 2012HailLeedey-The hail was reported by a KOCO-TV storm spotter.
May 2010Tornado (EF0)Leedey-Video and radar evidence showed a tornado northwest of Leedey. The tornado moved over open country, with no known damage occurring.
May 2010HailLeedey-The hail was reported by KWTV-9.
May 2008HailLeedey-The report was relayed by the National Severe Storms Laboratory SHAVE verification project.
September 2008Heavy RainLeedey-The measured rainfall was 4.45 inches, much of it falling in a six to eight hour period.
May 2020HailLeedey-no account filed
May 2012HailLeedey-no account filed
May 2010HailLeedey-no account filed
May 2010HailLeedey-no account filed
June 2008HailLeedey-no account filed
April 2006HailLeedey-no account filed
June 2005HailLeedey-no account filed
August 2005HailLeedey-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindLeedey-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindLeedey-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindLeedey-no account filed
April 2002HailLeedey-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindLeedey-no account filed
March 2000HailLeedey-no account filed
April 2000HailLeedey-no account filed
May 2000HailLeedey-no account filed
February 1999HailLeedey-no account filed
April 1999Thunderstorm WindLeedey-no account filed
April 1999HailLeedey-no account filed
May 1998HailLeedey-no account filed
May 1997Funnel CloudLeedey-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindLeedey-no account filed
March 1996HailLeedey-no account filed
May 1994HailLeedey-no account filed
June 1994HailLeedey-no account filed
October 1994HailLeedey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dewey 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
Rhea6.2 miles8
Trail7.3 miles9
Camargo10.6 miles8
Webb12.0 miles8
Aledo12.2 miles8
Burmah14.7 miles8
Lenora19.2 miles8
Vici19.5 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 LeedeyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1812076The 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 1094563. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.