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Lehigh, Oklahoma

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the East Coal census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74556. The Survey maps it on the Lehigh quadrangle. 272 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 620 feet above sea level.

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Lehigh within Coal County

On record in Lehigh

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Lehigh fell from 356 to 272 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
2010356
2020272-84 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 17 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

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Lehigh between 1996 and 2018, burning about 253 acres in total. 3 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
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural3
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
22 March 2018Arson/incendiarism175 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
27 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresTalihina AgencyCOALGROUND
27 February 2006Natural4.5 acresTalihina AgencyTHORNBUSH
26 February 2006Natural7.0 acresTalihina AgencyBRADY
19 February 1996Arson/incendiarism10 acresChickasaw AgencyCOALGATE1
19 February 1996Arson/incendiarism10 acresChickasaw AgencyCOALGATE2
16 February 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresTalihina AgencySTRINGTOWN
26 January 2006Natural40 acresTalihina AgencyAVANZIE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coal County

Storms near this place

42 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lehigh in 42 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 19 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 5 flash flood. 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
August 2003Thunderstorm WindLehigh$100,000Shingles were blown off many roofs. Some sheds and porches were damaged. Numerous trees were downed and some trees were blown onto homes. A few barns were also destroyed. Some power poles were snapped. A mobile home was also destroyed. The roof and one end of the mobile home was ripped off. The metal roof of a chicken pen was ripped off along with dog pens blown away. One of the roosters in the chicken pen was plucked of all feathers.
April 2025Tornado (EF1)Lehigh$75,000The roof of a home was damaged, a shed destroyed and numerous trees were damaged just west of the Coal-Atoka County line near E1770 Road.
May 2016Tornado (EF1)Lehigh$30,000Although the center line of this tornado did not move into Coal County from Atoka County until one-third of a mile west of US-75, the north edge of the tornado had expanded into Coal County producing tree damage 7 miles farther west, to the west of NS-376 Road. As the tornado approached US-75, the tornado produced slight roof damage to a house on Mockingbird Lane just north of the county line. The tornado damaged a radio station building at US-75 as the center line crossed into Coal County and began moving northeast. The tornado continued moving northeast through a rural area of southeastern Coal County before turning back to the east and moving into Atoka County near EW-177 Road.
May 2013Tornado (EF1)Lehigh$30,000Emergency management and spotters reported a tornado near Lehigh. Damage to trees and outbuildings occurred. Damages estimated.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindLehigh$10,000Roof damage, church in town had metal roof peeled off and hanging in power lines. Power lines downed and tree damage.
April 2019Tornado (EF1)Lehigh$5,000The Lehigh cooperative observer noted a 20-30 yard wide path of damage to Blackjack Oak trees southwest of Lehigh.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindLehigh$5,000Several tree limbs greater than six inches in diameter were blown down. Monetary damages were estimated.
October 2011Thunderstorm WindLehigh$2,000A 36-inch diameter tree was blown down. Several smaller trees/limbs were blown down as well. Monetary damages were estimated.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindLehigh$500no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindLehigh$10Tree limbs were downed.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindLehigh-Estimated wind gust.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindLehigh-Several trees downed.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindLehigh-Estimated severe wind gust.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindLehigh-Some damage to trees and vegetation. No structural damage at this time.
May 2019Flash FloodLehigh-Localized flooding with water covering the roadway on SH 3 south of Lehigh.
May 2019Flash FloodLehigh-Localized flooding with water covering the roadway on SH 3 south of Lehigh.
December 2019Tornado (EF0)Lehigh-A brief tornado developed with an otherwise non-severe line of thunderstorms west of Lehigh. This tornado heavily damaged two buildings on a farm with some of the debris blown to the northwest at right angles to the storm motion.
May 2019Flash FloodLehigh-Localized flooding with water covering the roadway on SH 3 south of Lehigh.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLehigh-No damage reported.
July 2017Flash FloodLehigh-Water was over the road on city road 1760.
May 2016Flash FloodLehigh-A high Water rescue was reported on Hwy 3 just south of Lehigh. The highway was eventually closed between Coal and Atoka counties.
October 2012Thunderstorm WindLehigh-Co-op observer reported a gust to 80 mph 4 miles SW of Lehigh.
January 2002HailLehigh-Hail was reported near Highway 75.
March 2024HailLehigh-no account filed
March 2024HailLehigh-no account filed
November 2024HailLehigh-no account filed
May 2024HailLehigh-no account filed
April 2022HailLehigh-no account filed
May 2016HailLehigh-no account filed
May 2016HailLehigh-no account filed
October 2016HailLehigh-no account filed
May 2009HailLehigh-no account filed
May 2009HailLehigh-no account filed
March 2009HailLehigh-no account filed
May 2006HailLehigh-no account filed
April 2005HailLehigh-no account filed
April 2002HailLehigh-no account filed
April 2002HailLehigh-no account filed
May 1998HailLehigh-no account filed
April 1995HailLehigh-no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindLehigh-no account filed
April 1993HailLehigh-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coal 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
Phillips2.5 miles14
Coalgate4.8 miles14
Cottonwood6.0 miles14
Olney7.7 miles14
Cairo9.5 miles14
Clarita11.5 miles15
Centrahoma11.9 miles14
Tupelo14.4 miles14

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 LehighAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1909093The 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 1094575. 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.