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Pocasset, Oklahoma

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Amber-Pocasset census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73079. The Survey maps it on the Pocasset quadrangle. 183 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,194 feet above sea level.

Pocasset within Grady County

On record in Pocasset

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 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Pocasset fell from 192 to 183 between 2000 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
2000192
2010156-36 (-19%)
2020183+27 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Pocasset between 2012 and 2017, burning about 1,088 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4

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
20 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresChickasaw AgencyDUTTON
8 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryWEST MAIN AMBER
23 February 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresChickasaw AgencyHOFFMAN FIRE
29 January 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined782 acresChickasaw AgencyBARREL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grady 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 Pocasset: 2 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grady County

Storms near this place

42 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pocasset in 42 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 24 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 4 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 2007Flash FloodPocasset1 hurt, $8,000Highway 81 north of Pocasset was closed due to high water. A car drove into flooded street causing car to be washed off the roadway. One injury was reported. Monetary damages were estimated.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPocasset$10,000Social media image showing two exterior walls of a machine shed collapsed. Time is radar estimated.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindPocasset$7,000Damage was noted along US-81 about three miles south of Pocasset. Power lines, an outbuilding and fences were damaged.
April 2021HailPocasset$5,000North side windows broken on multiple homes.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindPocasset$5,000Significant damage to a roof and barn and broken poles.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindPocasset$5,000no account filed
April 2023HailPocasset-MPing report.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindPocasset-An area of wind damage was reported from about a mile east of Pocasset to about 3.5 miles northeast of Pocasset. One house east of Pocasset has broken windows and porch pillars. At least two barns were damaged in this area.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindPocasset-An outbuilding was damaged.
May 2016Tornado (EFU)Pocasset-Many people observed three simultaneous landspouts west and north of Pocassett. No damage was reported.
May 2016Tornado (EFU)Pocasset-Many people observed three simultaneous landspouts west and north of Pocassett. No damage was reported.
May 2016Tornado (EFU)Pocasset-Many people observed three simultaneous landspouts west and north of Pocassett. No damage was reported.
May 2015Flash FloodPocasset-Up to two feet of water covering roads between Pocasset and Verden.
May 2015Flash FloodPocasset-Parts of Highway 81 submerged under several inches of water. No damage reported.
May 2015Tornado (EF1)Pocasset-A tornado was shown live from a KOCO TV helicopter near Pocasset. Emergency management reports four houses damaged by this tornado (DI 2, up to DOD 4).
August 1997Thunderstorm WindPocasset-Several tree limbs up to eight inches in diameter were broken off of trees.
May 2025HailPocasset-no account filed
March 2023HailPocasset-no account filed
June 2022Flash FloodPocasset-no account filed
April 2021HailPocasset-no account filed
April 2021HailPocasset-no account filed
April 2021Thunderstorm WindPocasset-no account filed
April 2020HailPocasset-no account filed
April 2020HailPocasset-no account filed
April 2020HailPocasset-no account filed
June 2019HailPocasset-no account filed
March 2015HailPocasset-no account filed
October 2011HailPocasset-no account filed
April 2003HailPocasset-no account filed
April 2003HailPocasset-no account filed
April 2003HailPocasset-no account filed
April 2003HailPocasset-no account filed
April 2003HailPocasset-no account filed
April 2001HailPocasset-no account filed
May 2001HailPocasset-no account filed
June 1998HailPocasset-no account filed
April 1996HailPocasset-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindPocasset-no account filed
November 1996Flash FloodPocasset-no account filed
November 1996HailPocasset-no account filed
March 1994HailPocasset-no account filed
July 1994HailPocasset-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grady 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
Amber4.5 miles13
Sooner5.9 miles13
Minco8.2 miles14
Chickasha9.8 miles13
Tuttle10.0 miles15
Verden10.5 miles9
Bridge Creek11.8 miles16
Tabler12.5 miles13

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 PocassetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2402141The 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 1096791. 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.