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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.

Sayre within Beckham County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Sayre 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.

YearPeople Change
20104,375
20204,809+434 (+10%)

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.

Storms near this place

60 of 102 shown

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1998Thunderstorm WindSayre1 hurt, $36,000no account filed
May 2009Thunderstorm WindSayre$3,500,000Signs 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 1998Thunderstorm WindSayre$50,000no account filed
May 1993Tornado (F0)Sayre$50,000no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindSayre$30,000no account filed
August 1999LightningSayre$20,000Lightning struck a tank battery used for oil and gas storage. The battery was destroyed by fire.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindSayre$20,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindSayre$15,500no account filed
May 1997Thunderstorm WindSayre$15,000Severe 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 1997LightningSayre$4,000Lightning struck and set fire to a house, gutting the kitchen.
May 2019Flash FloodSayre$2,000Multiple semi trucks and cars stranded in high flood waters over interstate 40. Time of first flooding estimated based on radar.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindSayre$2,000Metal roof blown off mobile home at highway 283 and country road east 1240.
October 2001Tornado (F0)Sayre$2,000A3. Numerous trees were damaged by this tornado.
June 1997LightningSayre$2,000Lightning struck a house, destroying several appliances and blowing holes in the sheetrock and eaves.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindSayre$1,000Several large trees uprooted along highway 283 and country road east 1230. Damages estimated.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindSayre$500An irrigation system was flipped over by an apparent gustnado.
October 2001Tornado (F0)Sayre$500A1. This tornado caused minor damage to trees.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindSayre$500Two carports and a fence were damaged.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindSayre$500Severe thunderstorm winds blew down a large Texaco sign at the Sayre exit off I-40.
October 2001Tornado (F0)Sayre$100A4. A few trees were damaged by this tornado.
June 2025HailSayre-The location is approximate.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindSayre-An estimated wind gust from a broadcast media storm chaser. The location is approximate.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindSayre-A measured wind gust near the junction of Interstate 40 and U.S. Highway 283.
May 2024HailSayre-MPing report.
June 2023HailSayre-MPing report.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindSayre-Semi-trailer flipped along Interstate 40. Time is radar estimated.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSayre-Social media image showing a 1224-inch diameter tree snapped halfway up. Time is radar estimated.
May 2020HailSayre-Approximated location.
May 2020HailSayre-Time and location estimate from radar.
April 2020HailSayre-Golf ball sized hail at mile marker 18 on I-40.
May 2019Flash FloodSayre-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 2019FloodSayre-High school football field was covered with standing water.
August 2016FloodSayre-Water ran over the roadway on highway 283.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindSayre-No damage reported.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindSayre-Fire Department estimated gusts to 60 mph.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindSayre-Shingles were blown off of a hotel, located of exit 20 on Interstate 40. Monetary damages were estimated.
September 2008HailSayre-The hail was reported on Highway 283.
September 2008Heavy RainSayre-The measured rainfall was 3.98 inches, much of it falling in a six to eight hour period.
September 2003Flash FloodSayre-Sayre City Park was flooded.
October 2001Tornado (F0)Sayre-A2. This tornado formed in an open field with no known damage.
June 2023HailSayre-no account filed
March 2021HailSayre-no account filed
May 2020HailSayre-no account filed
April 2020HailSayre-no account filed
April 2020HailSayre-no account filed
April 2020HailSayre-no account filed
May 2018HailSayre-no account filed
October 2017HailSayre-no account filed
May 2017HailSayre-no account filed
May 2017HailSayre-no account filed
May 2017HailSayre-no account filed
May 2017HailSayre-no account filed
May 2017HailSayre-no account filed
April 2012HailSayre-no account filed
April 2012HailSayre-no account filed
November 2011HailSayre-no account filed
May 2011HailSayre-no account filed
May 2011HailSayre-no account filed
May 2010HailSayre-no account filed
April 2009HailSayre-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beckham 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
Doxey3.8 miles9
New Liberty6.5 miles9
Hext6.7 miles9
Delhi8.3 miles9
Carter8.7 miles9
Hocker8.8 miles8
Merritt9.0 miles9
Prentiss10.1 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 SayreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2002499The 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.