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Ashland, Oklahoma

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Kiowa-Pittsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74570. It lies near Pine Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Ashland quadrangle. 35 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 774 feet above sea level.

Ashland within Pittsburg County

Population over time

2 figures

Ashland fell from 66 to 35 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
201066
202035-31 (-47%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

9 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Ashland between 2005 and 2017, burning about 5,747 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,280 acresOklahoma Division of ForestrySTUART
31 March 2012Arson/incendiarism700 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20067
3 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined856 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
10 March 2006Arson/incendiarism75 acresTalihina AgencyBOHAMAN
24 February 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,000 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryKIOWA ONE
14 February 2014Debris and open burning300 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
5 December 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeROCKIN' RANCH
31 December 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined310 acresChickasaw AgencyDIXON RANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pittsburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Ashland: 7 past producers. None of them 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, 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
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pittsburg County

Storms near this place

33 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashland in 33 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 15 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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
January 2020Flash FloodAshland1 killed, $10,000Portions of several roads were flooded across southwestern Pittsburg County, as a result of three to five inches of rain that fell across the area. A 58 year-old man drove his pickup truck into deep flood water flowing over S Harper Valley Road, where it became inoperable. He exited the vehicle, was swept downstream by the rapidly flowing water, and was drowned.
May 2001HailAshland$50,000no account filed
May 2017Tornado (EF1)Ashland$30,000This tornado developed north of Ashland and moved east-northeast, snapping or uprooting numerous trees, damaging an outbuilding, damaging a home, and snapping power poles. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 95 to 105 mph.
October 2009Flash FloodAshland$25,000Numerous roads were flooded in and around McAlester, Arpelar, and Alderson as well as across the rural areas of the county. Flood water entered at least one home in McAlester. Several water rescues were conducted as motorists became stranded in flood water.
March 2013HailAshland$20,000no account filed
February 1999Thunderstorm WindAshland$200Several large trees were blown over.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindAshland$100Thunderstorm winds blew down trees.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindAshland$100Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindAshland$100Several large tree limbs were blown down.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindAshland-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
May 2015Flash FloodAshland-Numerous roads were closed throughout Pittsburg County due to high water. Highway 31 was closed from the Highway 270 junction to Haywood and to Highway 31A. Highway 63 was closed from Haileyville to Kiowa. Highway 270 was closed from west of Indian Nations Turnpike to Arpelar. Highway 69B was closed from McAelster north to Highway 113.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindAshland-Strong thunderstorm wind gusts blew down trees.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindAshland-The Oklahoma Mesonet station near Stuart measured 59 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindAshland-The Oklahoma mesonet site near Ashland recorded a 60 mile an hour wind gust.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindAshland-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a large tree.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindAshland-The Oklahoma mesonet site north of Ashland measured a 64 mile an hour wind gust.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindAshland-The mesonet site near Ashland measured a 59 mile an hour wind gust.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindAshland-An Oklahoma mesonet site recorded at 59 mile an hour wind gust.
July 1995HailAshland-An isolated severe thunderstorm moved from southern Okfuskee County to southwest Pittsburg County during the early morning of July 26th. This storm produced dime-size hail at Bearden and also at Ashland.
February 2023HailAshland-no account filed
March 2013HailAshland-no account filed
May 2011HailAshland-no account filed
March 2009HailAshland-no account filed
March 2005HailAshland-no account filed
April 2005HailAshland-no account filed
May 2003HailAshland-no account filed
May 2001HailAshland-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindAshland-no account filed
April 1999HailAshland-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindAshland-no account filed
April 1996HailAshland-no account filed
April 1995HailAshland-no account filed
April 1993HailAshland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pittsburg 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
Ward Springs3.9 miles13
Kiowa9.6 miles17
Haywood10.5 miles17
Brewer11.5 miles18
Cabaniss12.2 miles13
Pittsburg12.2 miles17
Savanna12.7 miles18
Arpelar13.2 miles17

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 AshlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1908061The 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 1089732. 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.