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.
Population over time
2 figuresStrong 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 47 | |
| 2020 | 33 | -14 (-30%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1955 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Cheyenne quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Foss Reservoir quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Strong City quadrangle1:24000
- 1990 USGS Foss Reservoir quadrangle1:100000
- 1998 USGS Strong City quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
35 since 1994Regional 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/undetermined | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2011 | Natural | 56 acres | Cibola National Forest | EZERSKY |
| 6 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | 33 |
| 5 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.0 acres | Cibola National Forest | TINFOIL |
| 5 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | WICKHAM |
| 18 August 1994 | Natural | 2.5 acres | Cibola National Forest | not named |
| 17 August 2007 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Cibola National Forest | ISABELLA |
| 30 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 155 acres | Cibola National Forest | STRONG CITY |
| 21 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.2 acres | Cibola National Forest | WEBB |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
27 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2003 | Flash Flood | Strong City | $20,000 | Unofficial 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 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Strong City | $10,000 | Multiple 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 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Strong City | $5,000 | This 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 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Strong City | $5,000 | Roger Mills County Emergency Management reported a compressor shed was damaged near the intersection of County Roads N1940 and E0870. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong City | $5,000 | Six to eight inch diameter tree branches broken. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Strong City | - | The location is approximate. The report was relayed by emergency management. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Strong City | - | The location is approximate. The report was relayed by emergency management. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Strong City | - | Social media image. Time is radar estimated. |
| May 2017 | Flash Flood | Strong City | - | Debris filled flood waters were running over highway 283. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong City | - | Large tree limbs downed by wind. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Strong City | - | No damage reports. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong City | - | No damage reports. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Strong City | - | Water was flowing across several highways and county roads in the central parts of the county. |
| April 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Strong City | - | Storm chasers observed a tornado on the front flank of the storm. No damage was reported with this tornado. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Strong City | - | no account filed |
| April 2019 | Hail | Strong City | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Strong City | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Strong City | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Strong City | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Strong City | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong City | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong City | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Strong City | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Strong City | - | no account filed |
| February 2000 | Hail | Strong City | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Strong City | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Strong City | - | 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 Strong City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1988151 | 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 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.






