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Strong City, Oklahoma

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Cheyenne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73628. It stands on Wild Horse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Strong City quadrangle. 33 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,883 feet above sea level.

Strong City within Roger Mills County

Population over time

2 figures

Strong City fell from 47 to 33 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
201047
202033-14 (-30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

35 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Strong City between 1994 and 2020, burning about 418 acres in total. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural7
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 August 2011Natural56 acresCibola National ForestEZERSKY
6 August 2011Naturalunder an acreCibola National Forest33
5 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresCibola National ForestTINFOIL
5 August 2003Naturalunder an acreCibola National ForestWICKHAM
18 August 1994Natural2.5 acresCibola National Forestnot named
17 August 2007Natural2.0 acresCibola National ForestISABELLA
30 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use155 acresCibola National ForestSTRONG CITY
21 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use4.2 acresCibola National ForestWEBB

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roger Mills County

Storms near this place

27 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Strong City in 27 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 14 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 3 flash flood. 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
June 2003Flash FloodStrong City$20,000Unofficial rainfall totals up to 10 inches were observed, causing Nine Mile Creek to overtop its banks and flood croplands, farm implements, and low-lying rural roads.
May 2024Tornado (EF0)Strong City$10,000Multiple storm chasers reported observing a tornado northwest of Hammon. An mPing report was received of damage along County Road N1970, and Roger Mills County Emergency Management reported damage to a barn and trees near the intersection of E0920 and N1982 Roads.
April 2024Tornado (EF1)Strong City$5,000This is the first tornado of a large outbreak across Oklahoma and north Texas that occurred on April 27. The Roger Mills County Emergency Manager provided information about tree damage observed to the east-northeast of Strong City.
May 2024Tornado (EF0)Strong City$5,000Roger Mills County Emergency Management reported a compressor shed was damaged near the intersection of County Roads N1940 and E0870.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindStrong City$5,000Six to eight inch diameter tree branches broken.
March 2026HailStrong City-The location is approximate. The report was relayed by emergency management.
March 2026HailStrong City-The location is approximate. The report was relayed by emergency management.
June 2023HailStrong City-Social media image. Time is radar estimated.
May 2017Flash FloodStrong City-Debris filled flood waters were running over highway 283.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindStrong City-Large tree limbs downed by wind.
April 2015HailStrong City-No damage reports.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindStrong City-No damage reports.
June 2008Flash FloodStrong City-Water was flowing across several highways and county roads in the central parts of the county.
April 2003Tornado (F0)Strong City-Storm chasers observed a tornado on the front flank of the storm. No damage was reported with this tornado.
May 2020HailStrong City-no account filed
April 2019HailStrong City-no account filed
May 2017HailStrong City-no account filed
May 2016HailStrong City-no account filed
May 2015HailStrong City-no account filed
May 2008HailStrong City-no account filed
April 2003Thunderstorm WindStrong City-no account filed
April 2003Thunderstorm WindStrong City-no account filed
April 2003Thunderstorm WindStrong City-no account filed
July 2002HailStrong City-no account filed
February 2000HailStrong City-no account filed
April 2000HailStrong City-no account filed
April 2000HailStrong City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roger Mills 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
Cheyenne5.4 miles11
Herring6.0 miles11
Roll9.6 miles8
Mackie10.4 miles11
Hammon11.8 miles8
Hammon Junction11.9 miles8
Rosehill12.8 miles11
Crawford15.1 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 Strong CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1988151The 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 1101677. 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.