Ardmore Tigers Fire Hydrant - Ardmore, OK - Painted Hydrants on Waymarking.com

This hydrant was previously painted gray with an orange cap, and had probably been this way since the 1990s. In 2019, Create Ardmore and the Ardmore Fire Department worked together on a beautification effort in which fire hydrants in the downtown Cultural Arts District -- a comparatively small number compared to the over 1600 hydrants that the Ardmore FD has to maintain throughout the area! -- would be given the glamour treatment. As the Ardmore FD requires that the hydrants have a specific color cap -- red, orange, green or blue -- to indicate how much water pressure each tank has behind it, they did the priming work, leaving local volunteers to use their imaginations and minimal guidelines in the effort.

As the Ardmore High School mascot is a tiger, this hydrant is in the right place, although this old high school building is no longer used. The cap is a lighter orange than the rest of the hydrant, and the artist really did an amazing job. The tiger stripes on the cap do not interfere with its function, and the tiger itself is caught in mid-roar. Note that even the chain has been painted appropriately based on where it sits upon the hydrant.

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