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.
Population over time
2 figuresSweetwater 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 87 | |
| 2020 | 102 | +15 (+17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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 Sweetwater quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Elk City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Sweetwater quadrangle1:24000
Storms near this place
17 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2010 | Hail | Sweetwater | $200 | The hail was reported between Mayfield and Sweetwater. Tree limbs were also downed at this location. Monetary damages were estimated. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Sweetwater | - | MPing report. |
| April 2019 | Hail | Sweetwater | - | Nickel to quarter sized hail reported. |
| May 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Sweetwater | - | A landspout tornado was observed by a storm chaser under a developing thunderstorm east-southeast of Sweetwater. No damage was observed. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Sweetwater | - | No damage reports. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Sweetwater | - | No damage reports. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Sweetwater | - | No damage reported. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Sweetwater | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Sweetwater | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Sweetwater | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Sweetwater | - | no account filed |
| September 2009 | Hail | Sweetwater | - | no account filed |
| September 2008 | Hail | Sweetwater | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Sweetwater | - | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Hail | Sweetwater | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sweetwater | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sweetwater | - | 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 Sweetwater | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3475735 | 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 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.




