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Okay, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Saratoga Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71859. It lies near Devils Backbone. The Survey maps it on the Mineral Springs South quadrangle. It stands 318 feet above sea level.

Okay within Howard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

22 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Okay between 2000 and 2018, burning about 208 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism8
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Natural1

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
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Arson/incendiarism35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2005Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 July 2006Arson/incendiarism30 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined41 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Howard County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Okay: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Arkansas-Louisiana Lime Co.PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Howard County

Storms near this place

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Okay in 3 storm reports in 1993: 2 hail, 1 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
April 1993HailOkay-Thunderstorm winds damaged a number of trees.
October 1993Thunderstorm WindOkay-no account filed
October 1993HailOkay-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Howard 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
Saratoga1.6 miles15
Allbrook2.9 miles15
Tollette3.9 miles15
Schaal4.5 miles15
Schooley5.0 miles14
Buck Range7.3 miles14
Mineral Springs7.4 miles14
Shiloh8.2 miles11

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 OkayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7081854The 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 58299. 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.