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O'Kean, Arkansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1984. It stands in O'Kean Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72449. The Survey maps it on the O'Kean quadrangle. 192 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 276 feet above sea level.

O'Kean within Randolph County

Population over time

3 figures

O'Kean fell from 201 to 192 between 2000 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
2000201
2010194-7 (-3%)
2020192-2 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

Fires near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of O'Kean between 2002 and 2007, burning about 187 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
16 August 2007Arson/incendiarism25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
10 April 2003Debris and open burning12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
12 November 2005Arson/incendiarism96 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 January 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names O'Kean in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
December 2002Thunderstorm WindO Kean$5,000A few power lines were blown down.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindO Kean-Several trees blown down in the town of O'Kean.

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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
Sharum4.3 miles14
Fender4.3 miles12
Skaggs6.8 miles12
Lesterville7.6 miles12
Elnora7.9 miles12
Manson8.0 miles12
Shannon8.1 miles12
Hoover Landing9.4 miles12

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 O'KeanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3317128The 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 77867. 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.