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Alma, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Velma-Alma census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73533. The Survey maps it on the Ratliff City quadrangle.

Alma within Stephens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

27 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Alma between 1996 and 2018, burning about 36,053 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
3 August 2008Debris and open burning8.6 acresChickasaw AgencyHONEY LOCUST
27 July 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChickasaw AgencySANNER RANCH
19 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreChickasaw AgencyBLOODWORTH
9 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined358 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryVELMA EAST
9 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined23,824 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryRATLIFF CITY/TATUMS
11 April 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution62 acresChickasaw AgencyALCORN FIRE
9 March 2008Arson/incendiarism3.1 acresChickasaw AgencyLAWN DRUNK
8 March 2008Debris and open burning12 acresChickasaw AgencyPINTO ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stephens County

Storms near this place

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alma in 7 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 6 hail, 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
May 2003HailAlma$4,000Seven north facing house windows were reported broken along with a truck window.
May 2025HailAlma-The event time is estimated from radar observations.
June 2015Flash FloodAlma-Alma road closed due to flooding.
March 2003HailAlma-no account filed
May 2003HailAlma-no account filed
April 1994HailAlma-no account filed
March 1993HailAlma-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stephens 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
Countyline3.3 miles14
Santa Fe4.3 miles14
Velma4.3 miles14
Loco7.2 miles14
Harrisburg9.5 miles15
Hope15.7 miles16
Oklahoma Hills17.3 miles15
Dixie Park18.5 miles15

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 AlmaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3478208The 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 1089594. 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.