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Martha, Oklahoma

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Altus census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73521. The Survey maps it on the Martha quadrangle. 162 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,407 feet above sea level.

Martha within Jackson County

Population over time

2 figures

Martha grew from 162 to 162 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
2010162
20201620 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 9 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.

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 Martha: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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 Shale PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

44 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Martha in 44 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 28 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flood. 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
June 2007Thunderstorm WindMartha$75,000Several tree limbs 6 inches in diameter blown down. Also, several trees 24 inches in diameter and a 50 foot HAM radio antenna were blown down. Two 35,000 bushel grain storage tanks were toppled by the high wind. The event lasted approximately 15 minutes. Monetary damages were estimated.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMartha$5,000Four to five powerpoles downed.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindMartha$2,500Power lines were downed.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMartha$1,400no account filed
March 2000Thunderstorm WindMartha$500Trees and construction signs were downed.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindMartha$500no account filed
April 2025HailMartha-The report was relayed through mPING. Event time adjusted based on radar observations.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindMartha-Altus/Quartz Mountain Regional Airport (KAXS) observation.
June 2023HailMartha-Social media image.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindMartha-Altus/Quartz Mountain Regional Airport (KAXS) observation.
June 2018FloodMartha-Water over CR201 west of Highway 283 and north of Highway 62. Car was stuck here between downed power lines.
May 2015HailMartha-Quarter to golfball size hail. No damage reported.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindMartha-No damage reported.
May 2015HailMartha-No damage reported.
April 2013HailMartha-Hail accumulated to a depth of 1.5.
October 2013HailMartha-No damage reported.
June 2023HailMartha-no account filed
September 2023HailMartha-no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindMartha-no account filed
April 2016HailMartha-no account filed
April 2012HailMartha-no account filed
April 2011HailMartha-no account filed
November 2011HailMartha-no account filed
November 2011HailMartha-no account filed
June 2011HailMartha-no account filed
June 2011HailMartha-no account filed
May 2011HailMartha-no account filed
March 2008HailMartha-no account filed
May 2008HailMartha-no account filed
April 2005HailMartha-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindMartha-no account filed
May 2002HailMartha-no account filed
April 2001HailMartha-no account filed
May 2001HailMartha-no account filed
March 2000HailMartha-no account filed
June 1999HailMartha-no account filed
May 1999Tornado (F0)Martha-no account filed
May 1999HailMartha-no account filed
May 1999HailMartha-no account filed
June 1997HailMartha-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindMartha-no account filed
April 1995HailMartha-no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindMartha-no account filed
April 1993Thunderstorm WindMartha-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Blair4.6 miles9
Welon5.5 miles9
Victory5.7 miles9
Altus6.6 miles9
Friendship8.6 miles8
Hightower9.6 miles9
Warren10.3 miles9
Duke10.7 miles8

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 MarthaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2683642The 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 1095158. 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.

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.