Silo, Oklahoma
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Durant census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74701. The Survey maps it on the Durant North quadrangle. 384 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 817 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSilo grew from 331 to 384 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 | 331 | |
| 2020 | 384 | +53 (+16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1899 USGS Atoka quadrangle1:125000
- 1900 USGS Atoka quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Ardmore quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Ardmore quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Durant North quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Tishomingo quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Silo between 2006 and 2007, burning about 1,724 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 August 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Chickasaw Agency | NORTH FORTY |
| 10 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Chickasaw Agency | NORTH MEAD |
| 12 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Chickasaw Agency | CHURCHROAD |
| 24 February 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,680 acres | Chickasaw Agency | SILO CAMP |
| 9 January 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Chickasaw Agency | 199 |
| 29 January 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Talihina Agency | TANDYWALKR |
| 29 January 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Talihina Agency | CRESTVIEW |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 12 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Silo: 11 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Limestone Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Limestone Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
23 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silo in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 18 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | Hail | Silo | - | The report was relayed by emergency management. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Silo | - | MPing report. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Silo | - | MPing report. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Silo | - | MPing report. |
| May 2022 | Tornado (EF0) | Silo | - | A resident took video of a funnel cloud or tornado looking southwest from Durant High School. Some tree branch damage was observed along Wilson Street in northwest Durant suggesting that this was a brief landspout tornado. |
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF1) | Silo | - | A tornado developed about 1 miles south-southwest of Silo and moved east-northeast to at least 5 miles north-northwest of Durant. At least one home received roof damage and a mobile home was also damaged. Numerous trees were downed along the path and one truck suffered damage in the adjacent rear-flank downdraft region. |
| September 2011 | Hail | Silo | - | The hail was reported near Brown. |
| March 2008 | Hail | Silo | - | The hail was reported at the intersection of State Highways 199 and 78. |
| May 1993 | Hail | Silo | - | Severe thunderstorms developed in south-central Oklahoma on the 6th and moved very slowly east. A small F0 tornado developed along interstate 35 west of Ardmore and tracked northeast about eight miles before dissipating. The tornado overturned a tractor-semitrailer on Interstate 35 injuring the driver and snapped power poles on the northwest side of Ardmore. A second brief tornado downed power poles just northeast of Lone Grove. Strong thunderstorm winds uprooted trees, damaged the library and downed power poles in Lone Grove, broke off eight inch tree limbs four miles west-northwest of Brown and rolled a tractor-semitrailer near Caddo. Flash flooding from heavy rains washed out a bridge on Route 76 just north of Healdton. Water covered roads two miles southwest of Cobb and five miles west of Durant. Heavy rains resulted in street flooding in Durant. Heavy rains in Ardmore resulted in six inches of water in a movie theater, flooded streets with motorists stranded and 20 cars damaged by water two feet deep at an auto dealership. A lightning strike started a fire which resulted in an estimated $80,000 in damage to a house in Ardmore. Lightning knocked out the Durant Police department dispatch radio. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Silo | - | no account filed |
| March 2016 | Hail | Silo | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Silo | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Silo | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silo | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Silo | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silo | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Silo | - | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Hail | Silo | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Silo | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Silo | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Silo | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Silo | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Silo | - | 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 Silo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2718830 | 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 1098038. 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.





