Phillips, Oklahoma
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the East Coal census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74538. It stands on Sulphur Creek. The Survey maps it on the Coalgate quadrangle. 122 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 594 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPhillips fell from 135 to 122 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 | 135 | |
| 2020 | 122 | -13 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1896 USGS Coalgate quadrangle1:125000
- 1899 USGS Coalgate quadrangle1:125000
- 1900 USGS Coalgate quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Ardmore quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Coalgate quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Ardmore quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Ada quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
9 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Phillips between 1996 and 2018, burning about 535 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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 | 5 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 March 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 175 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 February 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 285 acres | Talihina Agency | COAL 48 31 |
| 27 February 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.3 acres | Talihina Agency | COALGROUND |
| 27 February 2006 | Natural | 4.5 acres | Talihina Agency | THORNBUSH |
| 26 February 2006 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Talihina Agency | BRADY |
| 19 February 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Chickasaw Agency | COALGATE1 |
| 19 February 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Chickasaw Agency | COALGATE2 |
| 26 January 2006 | Natural | 40 acres | Talihina Agency | AVANZIE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Phillips in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2017: 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2017 | Lightning | Phillips | $2,000 | Lightning strike caused home and tree damage at a residence on US highway 75. Time is estimated based on report and radar data. |
| May 2006 | Flash Flood | Phillips | - | During the evening of May 9, multiple, slow-moving thunderstorms dropped 2 to 4 inches of rainfall over southeastern Coal County producing flash flooding in the region. At 700 pm CST, Coal County law enforcement officials reported that floodwaters had also covered U.S. Highway 75 in the town of Phillips. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coalgate | 2.2 miles | 14 | |
| Lehigh | 2.5 miles | 17 | |
| Cottonwood | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Cairo | 7.5 miles | 14 | |
| Olney | 7.8 miles | 14 | |
| Centrahoma | 9.8 miles | 14 | |
| Clarita | 11.4 miles | 15 | |
| Tupelo | 12.8 miles | 14 |
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 Phillips | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q514980 | 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 1096598. 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.
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.






