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Asher, Oklahoma

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Wanette-Asher census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74826. The Survey maps it on the Asher quadrangle. 370 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,033 feet above sea level.

Asher within Pottawatomie County

On record in Asher

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Asher fell from 393 to 370 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
2010393
2020370-23 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Asher between 1996 and 2016, burning about 1,510 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChickasaw AgencyMCKINNELY
14 February 1996Arson/incendiarism225 acresChickasaw AgencyOILCENTER
10 February 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined102 acresChickasaw AgencyDIXON FIRE
30 January 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,183 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryTURKEY HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawatomie County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Asher: 13 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. 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
Corff Sand & Gravel Co Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Corff Sand and Gravel Co Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pottawatomie County

Storms near this place

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Asher in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 15 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
March 2000LightningAsher$2,000Lightning struck an oil tank battered, igniting a fire.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindAsher-Photo of metal shed debris.
May 2013HailAsher-The hail was reported along highway 39. No damage was reported.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindAsher-No damage was reported.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindAsher-Several trees were blown down near the Pontotoc county line. Monetary damages were estimated.
March 2024HailAsher-no account filed
October 2011HailAsher-no account filed
September 2009HailAsher-no account filed
March 2004HailAsher-no account filed
July 2004HailAsher-no account filed
July 2004HailAsher-no account filed
May 2003HailAsher-no account filed
May 2003HailAsher-no account filed
May 2001HailAsher-no account filed
May 2001HailAsher-no account filed
May 2001HailAsher-no account filed
September 2001HailAsher-no account filed
April 2000HailAsher-no account filed
July 1995HailAsher-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pottawatomie 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
Avoca1.7 miles15
Pearson5.8 miles15
Wanette6.1 miles15
Sacred Heart6.1 miles14
Saint Louis6.9 miles14
Trousdale7.3 miles12
Anderson7.5 miles15
Romulus8.8 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 AsherAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3241360The 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 1089729. 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.