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Sweetwater, Oklahoma

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Erick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73666. The Survey maps it on the Sweetwater quadrangle. 102 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,172 feet above sea level.

Sweetwater within Beckham County

Population over time

2 figures

Sweetwater grew from 87 to 102 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
201087
2020102+15 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

Storms near this place

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sweetwater in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 14 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
May 2010HailSweetwater$200The hail was reported between Mayfield and Sweetwater. Tree limbs were also downed at this location. Monetary damages were estimated.
June 2023HailSweetwater-MPing report.
April 2019HailSweetwater-Nickel to quarter sized hail reported.
May 2018Tornado (EF0)Sweetwater-A landspout tornado was observed by a storm chaser under a developing thunderstorm east-southeast of Sweetwater. No damage was observed.
April 2015HailSweetwater-No damage reports.
April 2015HailSweetwater-No damage reports.
August 2013HailSweetwater-No damage reported.
May 2016HailSweetwater-no account filed
May 2016HailSweetwater-no account filed
September 2010HailSweetwater-no account filed
September 2010HailSweetwater-no account filed
September 2009HailSweetwater-no account filed
September 2008HailSweetwater-no account filed
June 1997HailSweetwater-no account filed
September 1997HailSweetwater-no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindSweetwater-no account filed
May 1993Thunderstorm WindSweetwater-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beckham 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
Mayfield6.0 miles9
Prentiss6.9 miles9
New Liberty11.0 miles9
Erick14.5 miles9
Texola14.6 miles9
Hext14.7 miles9
Sayre17.0 miles9
Doxey18.7 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 SweetwaterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3475735The 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 1098690. 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.

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.