Whitesboro, Oklahoma
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Talihina census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74577. It stands on Deadman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Whitesboro quadrangle. 172 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 689 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWhitesboro fell from 250 to 172 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 | 250 | |
| 2020 | 172 | -78 (-31%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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.
- 1900 USGS Winding Stair quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1909 USGS Winding Stair quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Mcalester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Whitesboro quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Mena quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
387 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 387 fires within 5 miles of Whitesboro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,444 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 163 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 | 163 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 125 |
| Debris and open burning | 47 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 24 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1998 | Fireworks | 500 acres | Ouachita National Forest | FRAZIER CREEK |
| 30 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20485 |
| 30 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20486 |
| 30 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 131 acres | Ouachita National Forest | HORSE HEAVEN |
| 30 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 40 acres | Ouachita National Forest | BOHANNAN |
| 30 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20224 |
| 28 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20380 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
32 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitesboro in 32 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 18 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2020 | Tornado (EF1) | Whitesboro | $30,000 | This tornado developed south of Highway 63, and west of Flag Lake Road, where trees were uprooted. It moved east-northeast damaging a home, destroying an outbuilding, and uprooting more hardwood trees on 374th Avenue, before crossing Highway 63. The tornado continued east-northeast, uprooting trees on Camp Tom Hale Road and Bohannon Creek Lane, and then dissipated in heavily-wooded terrain north and west of NF6027. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 90 to 100 mph. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Whitesboro | $20,000 | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Whitesboro | $20,000 | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Hail | Whitesboro | $15,000 | Half dollar size hail damaged homes and vehicles. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesboro | $15,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree onto a house. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Whitesboro | $10,000 | Portions of several roads were reported flooded. A couple vehicles were stranded in the flood water. |
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF1) | Whitesboro | $10,000 | This tornado snapped or uprooted numerous trees and blew down power poles. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 95 to 105 mph. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Whitesboro | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesboro | $2,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down power lines and snapped large tree limbs. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesboro | $2,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured to 78 mph. Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesboro | $2,000 | Several trees were blown down and a home had minor damage east of Whitesboro on Highway 63. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesboro | $500 | A tree limb was knocked down across a road, and trees were knocked down just west of Whitesboro. |
| March 2023 | Flash Flood | Whitesboro | - | Locally heavy rainfall resulted in widespread street flooding in Whitesboro. Multiple roads were closed due to the flooding. |
| May 2020 | Tornado (EF1) | Whitesboro | - | This tornado developed in heavily-wooded terrain. It uprooted a few softwood trees as it crossed NF6027, and uprooted numerous softwood trees as it crossed NF6152. It was observed by a storm spotter. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 90 to 95 mph. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesboro | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Whitesboro | - | Portions of Highway 63 were flooded east of Whitesboro. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Whitesboro | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Whitesboro | - | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Hail | Whitesboro | - | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Hail | Whitesboro | - | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Hail | Whitesboro | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Whitesboro | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Whitesboro | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Whitesboro | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesboro | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Whitesboro | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Whitesboro | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Whitesboro | - | no account filed |
| February 2000 | Hail | Whitesboro | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Whitesboro | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Whitesboro | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Whitesboro | - | 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 Whitesboro | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3475174 | 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 1101736. 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.








