Lost City, Oklahoma
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Hulbert census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74441. The Survey maps it on the Hulbert quadrangle. 767 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 699 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLost City fell from 770 to 767 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 770 | |
| 2020 | 767 | -3 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 20 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 Muscogee quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1901 USGS Muskogee quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1905 USGS Muscogee quadrangle1:125000
- 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Hulbert quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Hulbert quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Hulbert NW quadrangle1:24000
- 1974 USGS Hulbert quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Muskogee quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
545 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 545 fires within 5 miles of Lost City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,024 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 194 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 194 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 162 |
| Debris and open burning | 96 |
| Natural | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 13 |
| Smoking | 13 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 30467 |
| 8 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 30468 |
| 8 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 30469 |
| 8 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 September 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 22 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 30552 |
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 Lost City: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Limestone Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
16 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lost City in 16 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2024 | Hail | Lost City | $20,000 | Golf ball size hail damaged vehicles and homes. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lost City | $3,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew numerous trees down onto Hulbert Road near Lost City. One house in the area sustained serious roof damage. |
| February 2018 | Flash Flood | Lost City | - | Portions of several roads were reported flooded northwest of Tahlequah. |
| May 2017 | Tornado (EF1) | Lost City | - | This is the first segment of a two segment tornado. In Cherokee County, this tornado snapped and uprooted numerous trees. The tornado continued into Mayes County. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in this segment of the tornado was 100 to 110 mph. |
| December 2015 | Flash Flood | Lost City | - | Portions of Highway 82 north of Tahlequah were closed due to flooding. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lost City | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew over an outbuilding and uprooted a small tree. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lost City | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs. |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lost City | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a large tree. |
| April 1999 | Hail | Lost City | - | At 735 PM CDT, there was a report of 1.5 inch hail near Lost City. At 742 PM CDT, there was a report of 1.25-inch hail just north of Hulbert. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Lost City | - | no account filed |
| March 2022 | Hail | Lost City | - | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Hail | Lost City | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Lost City | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lost City | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Lost City | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Lost City | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eli | 2.8 miles | 20 | |
| Shady Grove | 3.7 miles | 20 | |
| Hulbert | 3.8 miles | 20 | |
| Gabriel | 5.6 miles | 20 | |
| Gideon | 5.7 miles | 15 | |
| Thompson Corner | 5.8 miles | 20 | |
| Peggs | 6.7 miles | 15 | |
| Norwood | 8.2 miles | 20 |
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 Lost City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q584418 | 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 1100593. 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.











