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Loco, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Comanche census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73442. It stands on Boardtree Creek. The Survey maps it on the Loco quadrangle. 99 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 968 feet above sea level.

Loco within Stephens County

Population over time

3 figures

Loco fell from 150 to 99 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
2000150
2010122-28 (-19%)
202099-23 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Loco between 1996 and 2019, burning about 10,263 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
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
20 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use20 acresChickasaw AgencyW BOHANON
30 August 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChickasaw AgencyWILSON
20 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresChickasaw AgencyJAMESFIRE
11 April 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution62 acresChickasaw AgencyALCORN FIRE
24 March 1996Arson/incendiarism1,800 acresChickasaw AgencyVELMA#2
22 March 2008Arson/incendiarism5.8 acresChickasaw AgencyDR. PEPPER
2 March 2006Equipment and vehicle use7,880 acresChickasaw AgencyBIALOCO
19 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChickasaw AgencySOUTH LOCO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stephens County

Storms near this place

39 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loco in 39 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 23 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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 FloodLoco1 killedA man was swept away and killed by swift moving flood waters while on an ATV checking his fields. Time of occurrence is estimated from various media reports and when the call to local emergency officials was placed.
June 2023Tornado (EF2)Loco$150,000This tornado developed 2.6 miles southeast of Loco and moved east-southeast. Damage was confined to trees and power line poles until the tornado approached the county line where a mobile home was destroyed. The tornado did move into Jefferson County.
April 2025HailLoco$100,000Numerous social media images showing hail damage throughout the community of Loco due to wind-driven hailfall. This included numerous car and house windows cracked or broken and siding damage to multiple structures. Event time is estimated from radar observations.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindLoco$50,000Multiple social media images showing thunderstorm wind damage in and around the community of Loco. This included a metal and wood barn destroyed and a travel trailer damaged. Event time is estimated from radar observations.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindLoco$50,000A mobile home was rolled and destroyed.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindLoco$50,000A number of trees and power lines in and near Loco were damaged by thunderstorm wind.
June 2023Tornado (EF1)Loco$10,000A storm chaser observed a tornado west-northwest of Loco. Trees were snapped and uprooted along the tornado path. This tornado was embedded within an even larger area of damaging thunderstorms winds.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindLoco$1,000Several trees snapped or uprooted.
October 2009Thunderstorm WindLoco$1,000An 8-inch diameter tree was blown over by the strong winds. Monetary damages were estimated.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindLoco$300Three large trees were downed where Mud Creek flows near Highway 53.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindLoco$100Two inch diameter tree limbs of a green tree were downed.
April 2025HailLoco-A social media image. Event time is estimated from radar observations.
March 2019Flash FloodLoco-Some county roads are impassable.
June 2015Flash FloodLoco-County road closed due to flooding.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindLoco-Trees were snapped or uprooted.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindLoco-Trees were snapped or uprooted. Time was estimated from radar.
May 2010Tornado (EF0)Loco-Tornado #D2. A tornado was observed and photographed by storm spotters to the east of Loco which damaged a barn and a few trees. The path of the tornado is estimated.
May 2003HailLoco-Hail was observed on Highway 53.
March 2019HailLoco-no account filed
May 2019HailLoco-no account filed
May 2015HailLoco-no account filed
May 2015HailLoco-no account filed
May 2015HailLoco-no account filed
April 2011HailLoco-no account filed
October 2011HailLoco-no account filed
March 2008HailLoco-no account filed
June 2005HailLoco-no account filed
May 2003HailLoco-no account filed
May 2003HailLoco-no account filed
May 2003HailLoco-no account filed
June 1998HailLoco-no account filed
June 1998HailLoco-no account filed
April 1996HailLoco-no account filed
November 1996HailLoco-no account filed
November 1996Flash FloodLoco-no account filed
March 1996HailLoco-no account filed
March 1993HailLoco-no account filed
March 1993HailLoco-no account filed
March 1993HailLoco-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stephens 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
Santa Fe6.3 miles14
Alma7.2 miles14
Velma9.0 miles14
Harrisburg9.3 miles15
Countyline10.4 miles14
Comanche15.2 miles15
Sunray16.1 miles15
Oklahoma Hills16.8 miles15

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 LocoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2300903The 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 1094878. 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.