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.
Population over time
3 figuresLoco 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 150 | |
| 2010 | 122 | -28 (-19%) |
| 2020 | 99 | -23 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 14 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.
- 1901 USGS Addington quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1957 USGS Ardmore quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Ardmore quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1974 USGS Loco quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Ardmore quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
15 since 1996Regional 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Chickasaw Agency | W BOHANON |
| 30 August 2006 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Chickasaw Agency | WILSON |
| 20 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Chickasaw Agency | JAMESFIRE |
| 11 April 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 62 acres | Chickasaw Agency | ALCORN FIRE |
| 24 March 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,800 acres | Chickasaw Agency | VELMA#2 |
| 22 March 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.8 acres | Chickasaw Agency | DR. PEPPER |
| 2 March 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7,880 acres | Chickasaw Agency | BIALOCO |
| 19 March 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Chickasaw Agency | SOUTH LOCO |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
39 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Loco | 1 killed | A 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 2023 | Tornado (EF2) | Loco | $150,000 | This 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 2025 | Hail | Loco | $100,000 | Numerous 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loco | $50,000 | Multiple 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loco | $50,000 | A mobile home was rolled and destroyed. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loco | $50,000 | A number of trees and power lines in and near Loco were damaged by thunderstorm wind. |
| June 2023 | Tornado (EF1) | Loco | $10,000 | A 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 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loco | $1,000 | Several trees snapped or uprooted. |
| October 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loco | $1,000 | An 8-inch diameter tree was blown over by the strong winds. Monetary damages were estimated. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loco | $300 | Three large trees were downed where Mud Creek flows near Highway 53. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loco | $100 | Two inch diameter tree limbs of a green tree were downed. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Loco | - | A social media image. Event time is estimated from radar observations. |
| March 2019 | Flash Flood | Loco | - | Some county roads are impassable. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Loco | - | County road closed due to flooding. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loco | - | Trees were snapped or uprooted. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loco | - | Trees were snapped or uprooted. Time was estimated from radar. |
| May 2010 | Tornado (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 2003 | Hail | Loco | - | Hail was observed on Highway 53. |
| March 2019 | Hail | Loco | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Loco | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Loco | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Loco | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Loco | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Loco | - | no account filed |
| October 2011 | Hail | Loco | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Loco | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Loco | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Loco | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Loco | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Loco | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Loco | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Loco | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Loco | - | no account filed |
| November 1996 | Hail | Loco | - | no account filed |
| November 1996 | Flash Flood | Loco | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Loco | - | no account filed |
| March 1993 | Hail | Loco | - | no account filed |
| March 1993 | Hail | Loco | - | no account filed |
| March 1993 | Hail | Loco | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Fe | 6.3 miles | 14 | |
| Alma | 7.2 miles | 14 | |
| Velma | 9.0 miles | 14 | |
| Harrisburg | 9.3 miles | 15 | |
| Countyline | 10.4 miles | 14 | |
| Comanche | 15.2 miles | 15 | |
| Sunray | 16.1 miles | 15 | |
| Oklahoma Hills | 16.8 miles | 15 |
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 Loco | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2300903 | 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 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.




