Yeager, Oklahoma
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Holdenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74848. The Survey maps it on the Yeager quadrangle. 45 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 787 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresYeager fell from 75 to 45 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 | 75 | |
| 2020 | 45 | -30 (-40%) |
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.
- 1900 USGS Wewoka quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Yeager quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Shawnee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
27 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Yeager between 1996 and 2020, burning about 11,985 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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 | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 August 2011 | Natural | 217 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | GRAVES CREEK |
| 10 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Okmulgee Field Office | REALITY |
| 28 July 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.3 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | 3 CAR SALVAGE |
| 21 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Okmulgee Field Office | TIGER |
| 20 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 129 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | DAVIS |
| 2 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | DEAD COYOTE |
| 4 March 2007 | Debris and open burning | 3.5 acres | Wewoka Agency | MUD HOLE |
| 4 March 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 113 acres | Chickasaw Agency | YEAGER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Yeager: 2 past producers. 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 | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
11 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yeager in 11 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 4 hail, 3 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yeager | $5,000 | A large metal barn had a section of its roof peeled back. Time is radar estimated. |
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yeager | $5,000 | A trailer home was blown over onto its side. Monetary damages were estimated. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yeager | $2,000 | Wooden power pole blown over and trees snapped near the intersection of Highway 48 and East 1270 Road. Time is radar estimated. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Yeager | - | Emergency management relayed an image. |
| April 2021 | Flash Flood | Yeager | - | Hughes county emergency manager reported multiple roads in Hughes county that are washed out and impassible. Time is estimated based off the timing of the maximum storm total rainfall. |
| April 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Yeager | - | A tornado traveled north along NS377 Road for about a mile and a half in an area northeast of Yeager. The tornado caused trailer and tree damage, and some roof damage to homes. |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F2) | Yeager | - | Surveys showed that at about 735 pm, a tornado touched down about 1/2 mile southwest of the intersection of US-270 and SH-59, or about 2.5 miles southwest of Wewoka. The storm moved east through the south side of Wewoka causing damage in a neighborhood in the southwest side of Wewoka and along state highway 56 in the south part of town. The tornado continued moving east destroying two mobile homes southeast of Wewoka before crossing into Hughes County. It caused minor damage to a couple of homes and unroofed a mobile home near State Highway 48. The tornado then turned northeast and apparently merged with the Yeager tornado (see separate Storm Data entry) just northeast of the intersection of State Highway 48 and county road EW129. This tornado was on the ground for 8 miles and had a maximum width of 1/3 of a mile. The tornado was rated F2 (winds estimated between 113 and 157 mph) based on damage in southwest Wewoka including a brick house unroofed and the south exterior wall blown in. Eyewitness reports indicate that this was likely a multiple vortex tornado. |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F2) | Yeager | - | Surveys revealed that this tornado formed about a mile east of the intersection of State Highway 48 and county road EW129. About one mile after touching down, the Wewoka tornado apparently merged with it. This tornado damaged a house and destroyed numerous pecan trees shortly after the merger. The tornado moved east passing one-half mile south of the town of Yeager, but overturning a mobile home and downing power lines along a railroad just south of town. The tornado then began moving east-northeast as it moved south of Yeager. It completely destroyed a mobile home and toppled an oil pumping jack and storage tank east of Yeager. The last damage was a barn damaged 4 miles east of Yeager and the tornado lifted at 815 pm. The Yeager tornado was on the ground for 8 miles with a maximum width of four-tenths of a mile. This tornado was rated F2 (winds estimated between 113 and 157 mph) based on the destruction of a mobile home east of Yeager. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Yeager | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Yeager | - | no account filed |
| April 1993 | Hail | Yeager | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holdenville | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Horntown | 6.9 miles | 12 | |
| Wetumka | 7.6 miles | 13 | |
| Spaulding | 11.3 miles | 12 | |
| Cross Roads | 11.5 miles | 12 | |
| Lamar | 11.9 miles | 12 | |
| Carson | 13.3 miles | 13 | |
| Atwood | 13.9 miles | 12 |
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 Yeager | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3121333 | 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 1100043. 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.





