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Rocky, Oklahoma

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Southwest Washita census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73661. The Survey maps it on the Rocky quadrangle. 128 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,650 feet above sea level.

Rocky within Washita County

Population over time

2 figures

Rocky fell from 162 to 128 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
2020128-34 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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 Rocky: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone. 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 Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Washita County

Storms near this place

22 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rocky in 22 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 15 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
May 2019Tornado (EF2)Rocky$120,000This tornado developed as another tornado just a mile to the southeast was dissipating in northern Kiowa County. This second tornado moved north-northeast directly into the town of Rocky. Fortunately the tornado was relatively weak in Rocky and the damage in town was generally EF0 tree damage. The tornado turned more northeast after moving through Rocky and intensified to EF2 intensity. Northeast of town, a transmitter shelter building was damaged, a few mobile homes were significantly damaged, outbuildings damaged or destroyed, and a number of trees and power poles were damaged. Some debris from mobile homes and/or outbuildings were blown about 3/4 of a mile to the northeast. For the last two miles of the path, the tornado turned north and dissipated south of US-183 to the south-southwest of Cordell.
May 2017Tornado (EF1)Rocky$5,000A barn was destroyed, and numerous trees and power lines were downed as this tornado moved east-northeast from about 6 miles east-northeast of Rocky to 2.5 miles southwest of Cloud Chief.
May 2019HailRocky-Time is estimated based on radar.
May 2019FloodRocky-Farmland was flooded.
April 2015HailRocky-No damage reported.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindRocky-Severe wind gusts downed several power poles.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindRocky-Storm spotter estimated 80 mph wind gusts. Some minor tree damage was reported.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindRocky-No damage was reported with the wind gust.
May 2022HailRocky-no account filed
April 2022HailRocky-no account filed
May 2012HailRocky-no account filed
April 2012HailRocky-no account filed
May 2011HailRocky-no account filed
March 2008HailRocky-no account filed
April 2007HailRocky-no account filed
September 2006Thunderstorm WindRocky-no account filed
December 2006HailRocky-no account filed
June 2003HailRocky-no account filed
May 2003HailRocky-no account filed
April 1999HailRocky-no account filed
April 1996HailRocky-no account filed
August 1994HailRocky-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washita 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
Rainy (historical)5.7 miles9
Sentinel6.1 miles9
Dill City9.2 miles11
Cordell10.0 miles9
Lake Valley10.5 miles9
Cloud Chief13.3 miles9
Indian Village (historical)13.5 miles9
Port13.5 miles9

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 RockyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2676347The 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 1097367. 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.