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Leon, Oklahoma

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the West Love census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73441. The Survey maps it on the Leon North quadrangle. 74 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 817 feet above sea level.

Leon within Love County

Population over time

3 figures

Leon fell from 96 to 74 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
200096
201091-5 (-5%)
202074-17 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

30 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Leon between 2004 and 2020, burning about 1,170 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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
9 September 2012Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBORDER GRASS FIRE
9 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresChickasaw AgencyPUMP
22 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3862 CR 435
13 August 2012Smoking225 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOTTONWOOD CREEK RD
29 July 2006Debris and open burning24 acresChickasaw AgencyREED ROAD
19 July 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTANFORD RD 3RD
18 July 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTANFORD RD
17 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceN STANFORD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Love 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 Leon: 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 Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Love County

Storms near this place

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leon in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 11 hail, 9 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
May 2019Thunderstorm WindLeon$100,000A large area of wind damage was observed across southern Love County from near the Red River south of Leon northeast and east toward Burneyville. Damage was primarily to trees, but one home suffered some roof damage and some power poles were damaged. The swath of damaging wind was up to 1.5 miles near and south of Burneyville. Some tree trunks were snapped about 4 miles east of Leon and also just southwest of Burneyville. An EF1 tornado was also embedded within this area of damaging winds (see separate Storm Data entry).
May 2019Tornado (EF1)Leon$50,000A tornado moved northeast in Love County embedded within a larger area of damaging winds. Although most of the damage was to trees, one mobile home was blown off of it's foundation and destroyed about 3.5 miles east-southeast of Leon.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindLeon$5,000Trees and power poles downed in town, time estimated.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindLeon$2,000Power lines and trees down in the 26000 block of Lake Road in Jimtown.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindLeon$500Trees were downed.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLeon$250Severe thunderstorm winds downed trees.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindLeon$10Large tree limbs were downed.
April 2026HailLeon-The location is approximate.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindLeon-A large tree, approximately three feet in diameter, was blown down in the community of Leon. Event time is estimated from radar observations.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindLeon-Power poles downed in Leon and Jimtown areas.
April 2025HailLeon-no account filed
May 2021HailLeon-no account filed
May 2019HailLeon-no account filed
April 2011HailLeon-no account filed
June 2009HailLeon-no account filed
April 2004HailLeon-no account filed
March 2004Thunderstorm WindLeon-no account filed
March 2002HailLeon-no account filed
June 1995HailLeon-no account filed
October 1994HailLeon-no account filed
April 1994HailLeon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Love 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
Jimtown3.4 miles13
Rubottom4.5 miles13
Courtney5.9 miles10
Belleville6.9 miles10
Turner7.3 miles13
Burneyville7.7 miles13
Pike8.1 miles13
Dunbar8.9 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 LeonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2274937The 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 1094582. 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.