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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.

Willow within Greer County

Population over time

2 figures

Willow 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.

YearPeople Change
2010149
2020119-30 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

Storms near this place

57 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1995Thunderstorm WindWillow$500,000no account filed
April 1999Tornado (F1)Willow$50,000no account filed
April 1994Thunderstorm WindWillow$50,000no account filed
May 2019Flash FloodWillow$10,000School bus washed off roadway. Driver and two children were rescued.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindWillow$3,000Multiple tree limbs were downed due to the high winds. Monetary damages were estimated.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWillow$2,500no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWillow$2,000no account filed
September 1997Thunderstorm WindWillow$10Strong winds blew tree limbs down.
May 2019Tornado (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 2012Tornado (EF0)Willow-The tornado produced no known damage.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindWillow-No damage occurred with the wind gust.
June 2008HailWillow-Greer County emergency management reported golfball to baseball-size hail.
May 2005HailWillow-Hail was reported at the Sandy Sanders Wildlife Reserve near the Greer-Beckham County line.
April 2004HailWillow-Hail covered the ground.
May 1995HailWillow-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 2023HailWillow-no account filed
June 2018HailWillow-no account filed
May 2012HailWillow-no account filed
March 2012HailWillow-no account filed
June 2011HailWillow-no account filed
May 2008HailWillow-no account filed
June 2008HailWillow-no account filed
June 2008HailWillow-no account filed
June 2008HailWillow-no account filed
February 2007HailWillow-no account filed
April 2006HailWillow-no account filed
September 2006HailWillow-no account filed
September 2005HailWillow-no account filed
March 2004HailWillow-no account filed
July 2004HailWillow-no account filed
June 2003HailWillow-no account filed
June 2003HailWillow-no account filed
May 2002HailWillow-no account filed
June 2002HailWillow-no account filed
April 2001HailWillow-no account filed
May 2001HailWillow-no account filed
April 2000HailWillow-no account filed
May 2000HailWillow-no account filed
April 1999HailWillow-no account filed
September 1999HailWillow-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindWillow-no account filed
January 1998HailWillow-no account filed
May 1998HailWillow-no account filed
June 1998HailWillow-no account filed
May 1997HailWillow-no account filed
September 1997HailWillow-no account filed
May 1996HailWillow-no account filed
May 1996HailWillow-no account filed
November 1996HailWillow-no account filed
May 1995HailWillow-no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindWillow-no account filed
August 1994HailWillow-no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindWillow-no account filed
January 1994HailWillow-no account filed
April 1994HailWillow-no account filed
October 1994HailWillow-no account filed
May 1993HailWillow-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greer 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
Brinkman2.9 miles9
Moravia4.7 miles9
Lake Creek5.3 miles9
Bloomington7.3 miles9
Granite9.2 miles8
Jester10.3 miles9
Plainview11.4 miles9
Mangum12.4 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 WillowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q519843The 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.