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Slick, Oklahoma

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Kellyville-Slick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74010. It stands on Chicken Creek. The Survey maps it on the Slick quadrangle. 151 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 719 feet above sea level.

Slick within Creek County

Population over time

2 figures

Slick grew from 131 to 151 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
2010131
2020151+20 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

Fires near this place

16 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Slick between 2006 and 2018, burning about 21,764 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
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 April 2008Debris and open burning320 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeBROWN CREEK
18 April 2006Arson/incendiarism200 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeSLICK WILLLIE
13 April 2011Debris and open burning160 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeSLICK 50
12 April 2011Debris and open burning7.7 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeDEAD COYOTE
9 March 2007Arson/incendiarism10 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeSIX SHOOTER
29 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeCROSS WINDS
28 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined6,730 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryCHARLIE O'BRIEN FIRE
23 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined8,500 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryJACKSON RANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Creek County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Slick: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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 Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Creek County

Storms near this place

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Slick in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2012: 14 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 6 injuries. 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
August 2011Thunderstorm WindSlick6 hurt, $75,000Strong thunderstorm wind destroyed a mobile home, injuring six people.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindSlick$5,000Thunderstorm wind estimated at 70 miles an hour destroyed a barn near Slick.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindSlick$3,000no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindSlick$1,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down power lines.
October 1998Thunderstorm WindSlick$100Several large tree limbs were blown down
May 2012Thunderstorm WindSlick-Estimated 65 mph thunderstorm wind gusts snapped large tree limbs. This event was reported by a storm chaser for a local television station.
April 2008Flash FloodSlick-Heavy rain caused the Deep Fork River to flood. Numerous pastures, small streams and creeks were also flooded across southern Creek County.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindSlick-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down numerous large tree limbs.
September 1998HailSlick-2-inch hail accompanied by 50 to 60 mph winds.
May 2011HailSlick-no account filed
March 2009HailSlick-no account filed
March 2009HailSlick-no account filed
March 2009HailSlick-no account filed
April 2005HailSlick-no account filed
May 2001HailSlick-no account filed
November 2001Thunderstorm WindSlick-no account filed
March 2000HailSlick-no account filed
March 2000HailSlick-no account filed
December 1999HailSlick-no account filed
November 1999HailSlick-no account filed
December 1999HailSlick-no account filed
December 1999HailSlick-no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindSlick-no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindSlick-no account filed
May 1993Thunderstorm WindSlick-no account filed
May 1993Thunderstorm WindSlick-no account filed
October 1993HailSlick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Creek 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
Tabor1.7 miles17
Edna5.8 miles11
Newby6.4 miles11
Bristow7.6 miles16
Iron Post8.2 miles11
Tuskegee8.6 miles11
Heyburn9.4 miles16
Pulaski9.5 miles16

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 SlickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2651726The 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 1098119. 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.