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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.

Soper within Choctaw County

Population over time

2 figures

Soper 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.

YearPeople Change
2010261
2020225-36 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

5 since 1998

Regional 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
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
19 July 1998Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTalihina Agency58
9 April 2006Natural160 acresTalihina AgencyBIG BRANCH
9 April 2006Natural10 acresTalihina AgencyBOKCHITO
29 December 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined165 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryBIG BRANCH
20 January 2006Arson/incendiarism17 acresTalihina AgencySE73

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Choctaw County

Storms near this place

22 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1998Thunderstorm WindSoper$70,000Thunderstorm 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 2019HailSoper$15,000no account filed
May 2014Thunderstorm WindSoper$10,000Strong thunderstorm winds damaged the roofs of two mobile homes and uprooted a couple of hardwood trees.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindSoper$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew the roofs off of two barns.
April 2007Flash FloodSoper$5,000Heavy thunderstorm rains caused severe street flooding. Water entered one home.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindSoper$3,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew the cover off a well.
May 1999Tornado (F0)Soper$1,000There was a brief tornado touchdown north of Soper, causing mostly tree damage.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindSoper-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees onto Highway 70.
April 2008Tornado (EF0)Soper-A brief tornado touchdown in open country was reported by a KOTV storm chaser.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindSoper-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down a large tree.
July 2007Flash FloodSoper-Heavy rain caused flooding resulting in a road to be closed.
July 2007Flash FloodSoper-Heavy rains caused flooding along Highway 70 just east of Soper.
April 2026HailSoper-no account filed
February 2021HailSoper-no account filed
March 2016HailSoper-no account filed
April 2014HailSoper-no account filed
February 2009HailSoper-no account filed
April 2008HailSoper-no account filed
February 2008HailSoper-no account filed
April 2004HailSoper-no account filed
May 2001HailSoper-no account filed
May 1999HailSoper-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Choctaw 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
Jasper2.7 miles15
Forney4.1 miles16
Unger4.5 miles16
Duland4.5 miles14
Bluff6.4 miles14
Nelson6.5 miles16
Kent6.8 miles16
Gay6.8 miles13

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 SoperAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1818026The 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.