Yale, Oklahoma
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Yale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74085. It stands on Mud Creek. The Survey maps it on the Yale quadrangle. 1,059 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 804 feet above sea level.
On record in Yale
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
Jim Thorpe Houselisted 1971
Population over time
2 figuresYale fell from 1,227 to 1,059 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 | 1,227 | |
| 2020 | 1,059 | -168 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1929 USGS Yale quadrangle1:62500
- 1932 USGS Yale quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Enid quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Enid quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Yale quadrangle1:24000
- 1990 USGS Keystone Lake quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
5 photographs, 2020Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
44 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Yale between 2004 and 2020, burning about 1,643 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Pawnee Agency | MATTIE EAGLECHIEF |
| 21 August 2006 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Pawnee Agency | BFOT |
| 1 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Pawnee Agency | THOMAS |
| 21 May 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Pawnee Agency | YOUNGHAWK |
| 6 April 2011 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Pawnee Agency | FRIED SQUIREL |
| 6 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Pawnee Agency | YOUNGHAWK |
| 4 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 109 acres | Pawnee Agency | TANKER 2 FIRE |
| 4 April 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Pawnee Agency | CEMETERY FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
30 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yale in 30 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 14 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 lightning, 2 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1997 | Lightning | Yale | $80,000 | Lightning struck and set fire to a house, destroying the home and its contents. |
| July 2021 | Tornado (EF1) | Yale | $50,000 | A tornado touched down within the bend of the Cimarron River southwest of Yale and traveled almost a mile and a half to the southeast. At the beginning of the path, the tornado damaged oil tanks and trees. Multiple barns were heavily damaged as the tornado moved southeast across E3530 Road. The tornado then turned more south-southeast damaging numerous trees, a barn and a pivot irrigator. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yale | $20,000 | Structural damage throughout the community of Yale. Time is radar estimated. |
| May 1999 | Lightning | Yale | $20,000 | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yale | $10,000 | Trees and power lines were downed. Monetary damages were estimated. |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yale | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 1999 | Lightning | Yale | $1,500 | Lightning struck a television antenna on a house on Norfolk Road, starting a fire. |
| August 1998 | Lightning | Yale | $1,000 | Lightning struck a telephone line. The electricity then transferred through the line and into a house causing a light fixture to explode. |
| April 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yale | $100 | A tree was blown down. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yale | - | Social media image showing a large tree limb blown down, blocking the roadway near the intersection of B Street and Dallas Street in the community of Yale. Time is radar estimated. |
| May 2019 | Flood | Yale | - | Vehicle rescue. Highway 18 and 19th Ave due to road collapse. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yale | - | Four inch diameter tree limbs were downed on the east side of town. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yale | - | Three foot diameter trees were snapped, with some of the trees falling onto homes. Outbuildings and carports sustained major damage. A grain bin and barn were severely damaged. Seating at the football stadium was heavily damaged, as was the press box and the fencing surrounding the stadium. Monetary damage estimates were not available. |
| August 1994 | Hail | Yale | - | Isolated severe thunderstorms developed across Payne County during the early evening hours of the 4th. The storms produced dime size hail and damaging winds. Severe thunderstorm winds ripped the front door off the Police Department building at Cushing. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Yale | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Yale | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Yale | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yale | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Yale | - | no account filed |
| November 2008 | Hail | Yale | - | no account filed |
| November 2008 | Hail | Yale | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Yale | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Yale | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Yale | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Yale | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Yale | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yale | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Yale | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Yale | - | no account filed |
| March 1993 | Hail | Yale | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cartoco | 2.0 miles | 12 | |
| Quay | 3.2 miles | 12 | |
| Schlegel | 7.4 miles | 12 | |
| Gano | 7.5 miles | 11 | |
| North Village | 9.2 miles | 11 | |
| Cushing | 9.6 miles | 10 | |
| West Point | 9.7 miles | 11 | |
| Ingalls | 9.7 miles | 11 |
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 Yale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2846167 | 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 1100033. 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.





