Soper, Oklahoma
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the West Choctaw census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74759. The Survey maps it on the Soper quadrangle. 225 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 535 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSoper fell from 261 to 225 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 | 261 | |
| 2020 | 225 | -36 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 15 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.
- 1901 USGS Antlers quadrangle1:125000
- 1912 USGS Antlers quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1925 USGS Antlers quadrangle1:125000
- 1950 USGS Mcalester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Soper quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Antlers quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Soper between 1998 and 2016, burning about 354 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 July 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Talihina Agency | 58 |
| 9 April 2006 | Natural | 160 acres | Talihina Agency | BIG BRANCH |
| 9 April 2006 | Natural | 10 acres | Talihina Agency | BOKCHITO |
| 29 December 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 165 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | BIG BRANCH |
| 20 January 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 17 acres | Talihina Agency | SE73 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
22 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Soper in 22 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 11 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Soper | $70,000 | Thunderstorm winds nearly destroyed one house. A shop was severely damaged, and other houses in the area suffered roof damage. Some trees were also blown down. There were fortunately no injuries. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Soper | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Soper | $10,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds damaged the roofs of two mobile homes and uprooted a couple of hardwood trees. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Soper | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew the roofs off of two barns. |
| April 2007 | Flash Flood | Soper | $5,000 | Heavy thunderstorm rains caused severe street flooding. Water entered one home. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Soper | $3,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew the cover off a well. |
| May 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Soper | $1,000 | There was a brief tornado touchdown north of Soper, causing mostly tree damage. |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Soper | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees onto Highway 70. |
| April 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Soper | - | A brief tornado touchdown in open country was reported by a KOTV storm chaser. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Soper | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down a large tree. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Soper | - | Heavy rain caused flooding resulting in a road to be closed. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Soper | - | Heavy rains caused flooding along Highway 70 just east of Soper. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Soper | - | no account filed |
| February 2021 | Hail | Soper | - | no account filed |
| March 2016 | Hail | Soper | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Soper | - | no account filed |
| February 2009 | Hail | Soper | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Soper | - | no account filed |
| February 2008 | Hail | Soper | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Soper | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Soper | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Soper | - | 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 Soper | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1818026 | 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 1098199. 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.
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.









