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Lookeba, Oklahoma

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Binger-Hinton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73053. It lies near Devils Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Binger quadrangle. 78 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,371 feet above sea level.

Lookeba within Caddo County

Population over time

2 figures

Lookeba fell from 166 to 78 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
2010166
202078-88 (-53%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Lookeba between 2000 and 2018, burning about 2,633 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
17 September 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresAnadarko AgencyTYBO
8 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresAnadarko AgencyEAST - 2
6 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAnadarko AgencyKANUTER
4 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAnadarko AgencySMITH
29 August 2013Debris and open burning9.2 acresAnadarko AgencyEAZT-LAND
25 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAnadarko AgencyKANUTE
20 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,920 acresAnadarko AgencyKEECHI
17 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAnadarko AgencyMONSTER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caddo County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lookeba: 1 past producer. 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

Every working recorded in Caddo County

Storms near this place

22 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lookeba in 22 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 16 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLookeba$10,000Social media image showing a center irrigation pivot blown over. Time is radar estimated.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindLookeba$10Four inch diameter tree limbs were downed.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindLookeba-No damage reported.
April 2015HailLookeba-No damage reported.
May 2011Tornado (EF3)Lookeba-This tornado is labeled Tornado B1 (Lookeba Tornado). This tornado damaged/destroyed several structures and mangled numerous many trees and power poles. The tornado dissipated near the Canadian County line, minutes before the storm produced another tornado in Canadian County that became the EF5 Calumet-El Reno-Piedmont-Guthrie tornado. Monetary damage estimates were not available.
May 2009HailLookeba-The quarter- to half dollar-size hail was accompanied by estimated 50 to 60 mph winds.
August 2007Heavy RainLookeba-A total of 8.15 inches of rainfall was recorded over a 24-hour period ending on the 19th.
April 2004HailLookeba-Hail covered the ground.
April 2020HailLookeba-no account filed
April 2020HailLookeba-no account filed
April 2012HailLookeba-no account filed
April 2012HailLookeba-no account filed
March 2008HailLookeba-no account filed
March 2008HailLookeba-no account filed
March 2008HailLookeba-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLookeba-no account filed
May 2004HailLookeba-no account filed
March 1999HailLookeba-no account filed
October 1998HailLookeba-no account filed
June 1998HailLookeba-no account filed
June 1998HailLookeba-no account filed
May 1993HailLookeba-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Caddo 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
Binger3.9 miles11
Sickles4.3 miles10
Three-Way Corner5.5 miles10
Hinton7.5 miles10
Albert9.3 miles12
Eakly10.9 miles9
Swan Lake11.9 miles8
Spring Creek12.0 miles10

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 LookebaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2583039The 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 1102114. 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.