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.
Population over time
3 figuresLeon 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 96 | |
| 2010 | 91 | -5 (-5%) |
| 2020 | 74 | -17 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1902 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1943 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Leon North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
30 since 2004Regional 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BORDER GRASS FIRE |
| 9 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Chickasaw Agency | PUMP |
| 22 August 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 3862 CR 435 |
| 13 August 2012 | Smoking | 225 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COTTONWOOD CREEK RD |
| 29 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | 24 acres | Chickasaw Agency | REED ROAD |
| 19 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | STANFORD RD 3RD |
| 18 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | STANFORD RD |
| 17 July 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | N STANFORD FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
21 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leon | $100,000 | A 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 2019 | Tornado (EF1) | Leon | $50,000 | A 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leon | $5,000 | Trees and power poles downed in town, time estimated. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leon | $2,000 | Power lines and trees down in the 26000 block of Lake Road in Jimtown. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leon | $500 | Trees were downed. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leon | $250 | Severe thunderstorm winds downed trees. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leon | $10 | Large tree limbs were downed. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Leon | - | The location is approximate. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leon | - | A large tree, approximately three feet in diameter, was blown down in the community of Leon. Event time is estimated from radar observations. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leon | - | Power poles downed in Leon and Jimtown areas. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Leon | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Leon | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Leon | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Leon | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Leon | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Leon | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leon | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Leon | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Leon | - | no account filed |
| October 1994 | Hail | Leon | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Leon | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jimtown | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Rubottom | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Courtney | 5.9 miles | 10 | |
| Belleville | 6.9 miles | 10 | |
| Turner | 7.3 miles | 13 | |
| Burneyville | 7.7 miles | 13 | |
| Pike | 8.1 miles | 13 | |
| Dunbar | 8.9 miles | 13 |
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 Leon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2274937 | 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 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.






