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Amorita, Oklahoma

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the North Alfalfa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73719. The Survey maps it on the Amorita quadrangle. 38 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,207 feet above sea level.

Amorita within Alfalfa County

Population over time

2 figures

Amorita grew from 37 to 38 between 2010 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
201037
202038+1 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Amorita in 2020, burning about 1,528 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
17 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,528 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryOSAGE 43

Every fire recorded in Alfalfa County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Amorita: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Alfalfa County

Storms near this place

31 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amorita in 31 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 17 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado. 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
February 2023Tornado (EF0)Amorita$10,000A tornado northwest of Amorita significantly damaged a barn. This tornado may have persisted longer, but no additional damage was observed in this very rural area.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindAmorita$10,000no account filed
May 1998Tornado (F1)Amorita$3,000no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindAmorita$1,000Several tree limbs were downed. Monetary damages were estimated.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindAmorita$500A part of a barn roof was blown off.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindAmorita$400Several tree limbs were blown down around town. The time of occurrence is approximate. Monetary damages were estimated.
April 2012Tornado (EF1)Amorita-A large and violently rotating tornado moved northeast over open land, crossing into the far northwest corner of Grant county before entering Kansas. The tornado produced tree damage, but no known structure damage.
May 2022HailAmorita-no account filed
May 2022HailAmorita-no account filed
May 2022HailAmorita-no account filed
June 2019HailAmorita-no account filed
September 2011HailAmorita-no account filed
June 2008HailAmorita-no account filed
June 2008HailAmorita-no account filed
May 2005HailAmorita-no account filed
May 2005HailAmorita-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindAmorita-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindAmorita-no account filed
May 2002HailAmorita-no account filed
May 2002HailAmorita-no account filed
May 2002HailAmorita-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindAmorita-no account filed
June 2001HailAmorita-no account filed
July 2000HailAmorita-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindAmorita-no account filed
May 1999HailAmorita-no account filed
May 1998Tornado (F0)Amorita-no account filed
May 1998Tornado (F0)Amorita-no account filed
May 1997HailAmorita-no account filed
March 1997HailAmorita-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindAmorita-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Alfalfa 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
Byron1.6 miles8
Driftwood4.8 miles8
Burlington7.2 miles8
Ingersoll10.4 miles8
Cherokee12.2 miles8
Vining12.8 miles8
Nescatunga13.9 miles8
Ashley14.9 miles8

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 AmoritaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q426302The 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 1089616. 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.