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History · Cloud Creek

Half of Cloud Creek’s homes were built after 1983

Most of Cloud Creek was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1983. Below: maps from 1899 on.

0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Cloud Creek’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Cloud Creek are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 18993 editions of the USGS map, 1899 to 1971. Watch Cloud Creek change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cloud Creek’s history is told.

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On the map

Cloud Creek on the map, 1899 to 1971

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Cloud Creek. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Cloud Creek on the 1899 USGS mapCloud Creek on the 1904 USGS mapCloud Creek on the 1971 USGS map1899Siloam Springs sheet · 1:125,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Cloud Creek.

The story so far

Cloud Creek, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Cloud Creek yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Cloud Creek is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Delaware County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2020 census, Cloud Creek had a population of 319.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 121 to 319 (+164%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

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No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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Famous people

Famous people close to Cloud Creek

Nobody well known was born in Cloud Creek itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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C. G. MaxwellAmerican actor · b. 1902
Ray PowellAmerican baseball player · b. 1888
Damon CanfieldAmerican politician · b. 1897
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Leon PenseAmerican gridiron football player · b. 1922
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Clyde M. WebberAmerican trade union leader · b. 1919
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Mel CornshuckerCherokee potter · b. 1952

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.