Sayre, Oklahoma
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Sayre census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73662. It stands on Short Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sayre quadrangle. 4,809 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,808 feet above sea level.
On record in Sayre
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 6 records
Beckham County Courthouselisted 1984
J.W. Danner Houselisted 2002
Sayre Champlin Service Stationlisted 2004
Sayre City Parklisted 2004
Sayre Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2002
Sayre Rock Island Depotlisted 2000
Population over time
2 figuresSayre grew from 4,375 to 4,809 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 | 4,375 | |
| 2020 | 4,809 | +434 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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 Clinton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Sayre quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Elk City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Sayre quadrangle1:24000
Storms near this place
60 of 102 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sayre in 102 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 61 hail, 27 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 3 lightning. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sayre | 1 hurt, $36,000 | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sayre | $3,500,000 | Signs were blown onto Interstate 40 near exit 26. The west bound lanes had to be closed briefly as a result. Monetary damages were estimated. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sayre | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Tornado (F0) | Sayre | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sayre | $30,000 | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Lightning | Sayre | $20,000 | Lightning struck a tank battery used for oil and gas storage. The battery was destroyed by fire. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sayre | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sayre | $15,500 | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sayre | $15,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds blew part of the roof off of the Sayre elementary school library. Winds also uprooted large trees and downed at least one utility pole in town. Reports of more minor tree and roof damage were widepsread across Sayre. |
| June 1997 | Lightning | Sayre | $4,000 | Lightning struck and set fire to a house, gutting the kitchen. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Sayre | $2,000 | Multiple semi trucks and cars stranded in high flood waters over interstate 40. Time of first flooding estimated based on radar. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sayre | $2,000 | Metal roof blown off mobile home at highway 283 and country road east 1240. |
| October 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Sayre | $2,000 | A3. Numerous trees were damaged by this tornado. |
| June 1997 | Lightning | Sayre | $2,000 | Lightning struck a house, destroying several appliances and blowing holes in the sheetrock and eaves. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sayre | $1,000 | Several large trees uprooted along highway 283 and country road east 1230. Damages estimated. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sayre | $500 | An irrigation system was flipped over by an apparent gustnado. |
| October 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Sayre | $500 | A1. This tornado caused minor damage to trees. |
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sayre | $500 | Two carports and a fence were damaged. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sayre | $500 | Severe thunderstorm winds blew down a large Texaco sign at the Sayre exit off I-40. |
| October 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Sayre | $100 | A4. A few trees were damaged by this tornado. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Sayre | - | The location is approximate. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sayre | - | An estimated wind gust from a broadcast media storm chaser. The location is approximate. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sayre | - | A measured wind gust near the junction of Interstate 40 and U.S. Highway 283. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Sayre | - | MPing report. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Sayre | - | MPing report. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sayre | - | Semi-trailer flipped along Interstate 40. Time is radar estimated. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sayre | - | Social media image showing a 1224-inch diameter tree snapped halfway up. Time is radar estimated. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Sayre | - | Approximated location. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Sayre | - | Time and location estimate from radar. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Sayre | - | Golf ball sized hail at mile marker 18 on I-40. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Sayre | - | Twitter report with picture. Timber Bean Creek and Coffee Bean Creek both out of their banks at Doxey ok, east of Sayre. Over 3 inches of rainfall in a little over an hour. |
| May 2019 | Flood | Sayre | - | High school football field was covered with standing water. |
| August 2016 | Flood | Sayre | - | Water ran over the roadway on highway 283. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sayre | - | No damage reported. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sayre | - | Fire Department estimated gusts to 60 mph. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sayre | - | Shingles were blown off of a hotel, located of exit 20 on Interstate 40. Monetary damages were estimated. |
| September 2008 | Hail | Sayre | - | The hail was reported on Highway 283. |
| September 2008 | Heavy Rain | Sayre | - | The measured rainfall was 3.98 inches, much of it falling in a six to eight hour period. |
| September 2003 | Flash Flood | Sayre | - | Sayre City Park was flooded. |
| October 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Sayre | - | A2. This tornado formed in an open field with no known damage. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Sayre | - | no account filed |
| March 2021 | Hail | Sayre | - | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Hail | Sayre | - | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Hail | Sayre | - | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Hail | Sayre | - | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Hail | Sayre | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Sayre | - | no account filed |
| October 2017 | Hail | Sayre | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Sayre | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Sayre | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Sayre | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Sayre | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Sayre | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Sayre | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Sayre | - | no account filed |
| November 2011 | Hail | Sayre | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Sayre | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Sayre | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Sayre | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Sayre | - | 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 Sayre | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2002499 | 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 1097858. 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.
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.




