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Taloga, Oklahoma

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Taloga-Leedey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73667. The Survey maps it on the Taloga quadrangle. 288 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,709 feet above sea level.

Taloga within Dewey County

On record in Taloga

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Taloga fell from 372 to 288 between 2000 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
2000372
2010299-73 (-20%)
2020288-11 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Taloga between 1999 and 2016, burning about 3,550 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
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 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresConcho Field OfficeEAGLE II
31 July 1999Debris and open burning10 acresConcho Field OfficeFIELD
29 July 1999Debris and open burning80 acresConcho Field OfficeFEED
26 June 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresConcho Field OfficeEAGLE
4 May 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution2,657 acresConcho Field Office270
28 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresConcho Field OfficeVANDERWORK
28 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined587 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryLENORA
14 February 2000Smoking1.5 acresConcho Field OfficeSQUINT EYE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dewey County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Taloga: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dewey County

Storms near this place

39 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Taloga in 39 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 28 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 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
September 1999Thunderstorm WindTaloga$30,000no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindTaloga$5,000An Apco gas station had its awning roof blown off. The awning was found a block away. An auto body shop also sustained roof damage. Trees and large tree limbs were downed.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindTaloga$2,500Power lines were downed, briefly closing Highway 183.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindTaloga$1,000Tree limbs, up to 12 inches in diameter, were downed in town. Road signs were blown down south of town near the cemetery.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindTaloga$10Two inch diameter tree limbs were downed.
May 2024HailTaloga-Time is radar estimated.
September 2019Flash FloodTaloga-Water over the roadways, road closures.
May 2010HailTaloga-The report was relayed by the Dewey county sheriff.
May 2010HailTaloga-The report was relayed by the Dewey county sheriff.
May 2010HailTaloga-Reported by the Dewey county sheriff.
September 2008Flash FloodTaloga-Water over Highway 183 made it impassable.
September 2008Flash FloodTaloga-The River Road near the River Bridge was closed due to at least a foot of water running over top of it.
April 2004HailTaloga-Hail was observed covering Highway 183.
June 2019HailTaloga-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindTaloga-no account filed
October 2016HailTaloga-no account filed
July 2010HailTaloga-no account filed
March 2008HailTaloga-no account filed
May 2008HailTaloga-no account filed
October 2007HailTaloga-no account filed
August 2005HailTaloga-no account filed
May 2004HailTaloga-no account filed
May 2004HailTaloga-no account filed
May 2004HailTaloga-no account filed
April 2003HailTaloga-no account filed
April 2003HailTaloga-no account filed
May 2003HailTaloga-no account filed
May 2003HailTaloga-no account filed
June 2001HailTaloga-no account filed
March 2000HailTaloga-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindTaloga-no account filed
April 1999HailTaloga-no account filed
April 1999HailTaloga-no account filed
May 1999HailTaloga-no account filed
May 1997HailTaloga-no account filed
May 1996HailTaloga-no account filed
March 1996HailTaloga-no account filed
May 1994HailTaloga-no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindTaloga-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dewey 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
Lenora5.2 miles8
Seiling7.8 miles8
Hucmac9.0 miles9
Cestos10.0 miles8
Webb11.8 miles8
Parallel11.9 miles9
Putnam12.6 miles9
Fonda13.2 miles8

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 TalogaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2729568The 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 1098739. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.