Wainwright, Oklahoma
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Muskogee Southwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74468. The Survey maps it on the Wainwright quadrangle. 93 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 640 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWainwright fell from 165 to 93 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 | 165 | |
| 2020 | 93 | -72 (-44%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1896 USGS Okmulgee quadrangle1:125000
- 1900 USGS Okmulgee quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Wainwright quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Muskogee quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Wainwright between 2006 and 2010, burning about 11,222 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 30336 |
| 5 November 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 29 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | FELONY ARREST |
| 7 January 2006 | Natural | 3,110 acres | Cherokee Nation Tribe | WAINWRIGHT 2 |
| 1 January 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 8,080 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | WAINWRIGHT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wainwright: 1 past producer. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
17 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wainwright in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wainwright | $95,000 | A single family dwelling was destroyed, and two mobile homes were damaged. The roof of the local school was lifted up and thrown into a school bus. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wainwright | $30,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour destroyed a mobile home. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wainwright | $25,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind damaged the roofs of homes, uprooted trees, and snapped numerous large tree limbs in a broad swath from northwest of Wainwright to east of Wainwright. |
| January 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wainwright | $12,000 | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wainwright | $10,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind damaged the roofs of homes, damaged a barn, and snapped large tree limbs. |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wainwright | $10,000 | no account filed |
| January 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wainwright | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wainwright | - | Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs. |
| September 2009 | Flash Flood | Wainwright | - | Heavy rain caused water to flow over county roads near Wainwright. |
| September 2009 | Flash Flood | Wainwright | - | Heavy rain caused county roads near Wainwright to be covered by water. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Wainwright | - | Heavy rains caused numerous roads to be flooded in and around Wainwright. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Wainwright | - | Heavy rain caused water to flow over secondary roads near Wainwright. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Wainwright | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Wainwright | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Wainwright | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Wainwright | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | Wainwright | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak-Ta-Hah (historical) | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Flusche | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Oktaha | 5.4 miles | 19 | |
| Boynton | 5.5 miles | 15 | |
| Beland | 5.7 miles | 14 | |
| Council Hill | 6.1 miles | 15 | |
| Crekola | 7.6 miles | 18 | |
| Summit | 8.4 miles | 18 |
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 Wainwright | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3287650 | 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 1099291. 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.







