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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.

Lost City within Cherokee County

Population over time

2 figures

Lost 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.

YearPeople Change
2010770
2020767-3 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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

545 since 1992

Regional 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/incendiarism194
Missing data/not specified/undetermined162
Debris and open burning96
Natural23
Equipment and vehicle use18
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Recreation and ceremony13
Smoking13
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30467
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30468
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30469
8 September 1998Debris and open burning4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2000Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2005Debris and open burning22 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30552

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

16 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2024HailLost City$20,000Golf ball size hail damaged vehicles and homes.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindLost City$3,000Thunderstorm 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 2018Flash FloodLost City-Portions of several roads were reported flooded northwest of Tahlequah.
May 2017Tornado (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 2015Flash FloodLost City-Portions of Highway 82 north of Tahlequah were closed due to flooding.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLost City-Strong thunderstorm wind blew over an outbuilding and uprooted a small tree.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindLost City-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindLost City-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a large tree.
April 1999HailLost 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 2026HailLost City-no account filed
March 2022HailLost City-no account filed
March 2017HailLost City-no account filed
September 2000HailLost City-no account filed
April 1999Thunderstorm WindLost City-no account filed
June 1999HailLost City-no account filed
May 1999HailLost City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
Eli2.8 miles20
Shady Grove3.7 miles20
Hulbert3.8 miles20
Gabriel5.6 miles20
Gideon5.7 miles15
Thompson Corner5.8 miles20
Peggs6.7 miles15
Norwood8.2 miles20

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 CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q584418The 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.