Olustee, Oklahoma
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the West Jackson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73560. It stands on Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Olustee quadrangle. 468 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,332 feet above sea level.
On record in Olustee
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 3 records
Olustee Public Library and Parklisted 2006- Cross S Ranch Headquarterslisted 2006
- Fullerton Damlisted 1976
Population over time
2 figuresOlustee fell from 607 to 468 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 | 607 | |
| 2020 | 468 | -139 (-23%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 9 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.
- 1955 USGS Lawton quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1964 USGS Olustee quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Altus quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
2 photographs, 1938Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1938. Library of Congress
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1938. Library of Congress
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Olustee: 3 past producers. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
31 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olustee in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 21 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olustee | $40,000 | A barn was destroyed. Monetary damages were estimated. |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olustee | $17,000 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olustee | $5,000 | Grain bin blown was over at D street and W 5th. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olustee | $3,000 | Numerous tree limbs were blown down. Monetary damages were estimated. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olustee | $150 | Tree limbs, 3-4 inches in diameter, were downed. |
| April 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olustee | $10 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Olustee | - | MPing report. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Olustee | - | MPing report. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Olustee | - | MPing report. |
| April 2019 | Hail | Olustee | - | Twitter report with picture. Time estimated by radar. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olustee | - | Measured by a personal weather station. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olustee | - | Measured by a personal weather station. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Olustee | - | Up to golf ball-size hail was reported for several minutes. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Olustee | - | Hail was observed on the west side of town. |
| June 2004 | Flash Flood | Olustee | - | Flash flooding occurred during the evening of June 28 as rainfall totals up to 4 inches over Jackson County in southwestern Oklahoma. OK State Highway 6 was covered by floodwaters and mud at 8:30 pm CDT on June 28 at two locations on the highway about 1 mile north of Olustee, OK. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Olustee | - | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Hail | Olustee | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Olustee | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Olustee | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Olustee | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Olustee | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Olustee | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Olustee | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Olustee | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Olustee | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Olustee | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Olustee | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Olustee | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Olustee | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Olustee | - | no account filed |
| October 1994 | Hail | Olustee | - | 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.
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 Olustee | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2133064 | 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 1096265. 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.


