Willow, Oklahoma
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Northwest Greer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73673. The Survey maps it on the Willow quadrangle. 119 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,742 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWillow fell from 149 to 119 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 | 149 | |
| 2020 | 119 | -30 (-20%) |
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
- 1961 USGS Willow quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Elk City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Willow quadrangle1:24000
Storms near this place
57 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willow in 57 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 43 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 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 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willow | $500,000 | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Willow | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willow | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Willow | $10,000 | School bus washed off roadway. Driver and two children were rescued. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willow | $3,000 | Multiple tree limbs were downed due to the high winds. Monetary damages were estimated. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willow | $2,500 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willow | $2,000 | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willow | $10 | Strong winds blew tree limbs down. |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EFU) | Willow | - | An Oklahoma City television storm chaser observed a tornado that was estimated to be located just southwest of the community of Willow. No damage was reported. |
| March 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Willow | - | The tornado produced no known damage. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willow | - | No damage occurred with the wind gust. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Willow | - | Greer County emergency management reported golfball to baseball-size hail. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Willow | - | Hail was reported at the Sandy Sanders Wildlife Reserve near the Greer-Beckham County line. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Willow | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Willow | - | Severe thunderstorms moved into southwest Oklahoma from the Texas panhandle, producing giant hail and one tornado. The tornado, a brief F0, occurred in Texola in Beckham County and did no reported damage. The largest hail reported was three-inch diameter in Texola in Beckham County, where car windshields were broken. Also, baseball-size hail was reported in Harmon County three miles northeast of Vinson, in Beckham County five miles south of Texola, and in Greer County throughout a five mile radius of Reed. Tennis ball-size hail 16 miles west-northwest of Willow in Greer County knocked out house windows. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| February 2007 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willow | - | no account filed |
| January 1998 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| November 1996 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willow | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willow | - | no account filed |
| January 1994 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| October 1994 | Hail | Willow | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | Willow | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brinkman | 2.9 miles | 9 | |
| Moravia | 4.7 miles | 9 | |
| Lake Creek | 5.3 miles | 9 | |
| Bloomington | 7.3 miles | 9 | |
| Granite | 9.2 miles | 8 | |
| Jester | 10.3 miles | 9 | |
| Plainview | 11.4 miles | 9 | |
| Mangum | 12.4 miles | 8 |
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 Willow | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q519843 | 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 1099847. 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.




