BlockAvard, Oklahoma
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the South Woods census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73717. The Survey maps it on the Avard quadrangle. 11 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,476 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Woodward quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Woodward quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS Avard quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Alva quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Alva quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
17 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Avard in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 10 hail, 6 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Avard | $30,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Avard | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Lightning | Avard | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Avard | $10 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Avard | - | The hail fell four miles south of US Highway 64 on State Highway 14. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Avard | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Avard | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Avard | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Avard | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Avard | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Avard | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Avard | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Avard | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Avard | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Avard | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Avard | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | Avard | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Avard | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2573086 | The 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 1089768. 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.
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.