Salt Fork, Oklahoma

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lamont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74640. It stands on Negro Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lamont quadrangle. It stands 1,007 feet above sea level.

Salt Fork within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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.

1955 USGS Enid quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Enid quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1968 USGS Lamont quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Ponca City quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Salt Fork: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Salt Fork in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 9 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
May 1998	Tornado (F1)	Salt Fork	$15,000	no account filed
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Salt Fork	$10,000	An observation from platforms at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Southern Great Plains Facility. A relayed image also shows a large metal awning collapsed. The event time is estimated from radar observations.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Salt Fork	$5,000	A large piece of farm equipment was blown over; two large feeder bins were blown about 1000 yards; two barn doors were blown off their hinges, and a storgage shed was destroyed.
April 2026	Hail	Salt Fork	-	The report was relayed through mPING.
May 2025	Hail	Salt Fork	-	The report was relayed through mPING.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Salt Fork	-	Grant county sheriff reports tree and power line damage east of Medford to south of Lamont.
June 1998	Hail	Salt Fork	-	Vehicle windows were broken.
May 2016	Hail	Salt Fork	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Salt Fork	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Salt Fork	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Salt Fork	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	Salt Fork	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Salt Fork	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lamont	4.2 miles	10
Pond Creek	11.5 miles	10
Numa	11.7 miles	11
Jefferson	12.2 miles	10
Deer Creek	12.3 miles	11
Medford	14.1 miles	11
Clyde	19.1 miles	10
Renfrow	20.4 miles	10

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 Salt Fork	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22083114	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 1097703. 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.