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Acme, Oklahoma

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Rush Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73082. The Survey maps it on the Rocky Ford quadrangle.

Acme within Grady County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Acme in 2011, burning about 1,500 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
5 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1,500 acresAnadarko AgencyWACME

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grady County

Storms near this place

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Acme in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2020Tornado (EF1)Acme$50,000This tornado moved east from Comanche County into Grady County. Immediately upon moving into Grady County, a mobile home was struck and heavily damaged on the east side of County Road 2750 (which is the county line). No other damage is known to have occurred.
May 2018Tornado (EF1)Acme$30,000A tornado developed near County Road 1560 and County Street 2770 to the southwest of Rush Springs. The tornado moved generally northeast crossing US Highway 81 about 3 miles north of Rush Springs, then dissipating about 2 miles SSE of Agawam (or 4.5 miles NNW of Rush Springs). One unoccupied mobile home was rolled and destroyed west of Rush Springs, although adjacent tree damage was relatively minor. Otherwise, damage consisted primarily of tree damage along the path as well as minor damage to a few homes.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindAcme-Acme (ACME) Mesonet observation. Intermittent severe (>50-knot) wind gusts during the listed event time, with the peak gust of 56 knots at 0250 LST. A heat burst was likely responsible for this event.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindAcme-Acme (ACME) Mesonet observation.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindAcme-Acme (ACME) Mesonet observation.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindAcme-Acme (ACME) Mesonet observation.
May 2023HailAcme-MPing report.
May 2015Flash FloodAcme-Water over Highway 81 near Rush Springs.
May 2015HailAcme-NSSL shave report. No damage reported.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindAcme-no account filed
June 2022HailAcme-no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindAcme-no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindAcme-no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindAcme-no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindAcme-no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindAcme-no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindAcme-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindAcme-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindAcme-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindAcme-no account filed
July 2017HailAcme-no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindAcme-no account filed
April 2013Thunderstorm WindAcme-no account filed
April 2011HailAcme-no account filed
May 2009Thunderstorm WindAcme-no account filed
July 1994HailAcme-no account filed
March 1993HailAcme-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grady 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
Rush Springs3.5 miles17
Rocky Ford4.3 miles13
Farwell6.0 miles13
Agawam6.4 miles17
Ninnekah11.4 miles17
Bailey13.0 miles16
Norge13.1 miles17
Laverty13.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100162. 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.