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Blanco, Oklahoma

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Kiowa-Pittsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74528. It stands on Wildhorse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Savanna quadrangle. 105 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 712 feet above sea level.

Blanco within Pittsburg County

On record in Blanco

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Blanco between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17,979 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 53 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
Arson/incendiarism53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Debris and open burning17
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 September 2002Arson/incendiarism70 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2013Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20400
7 August 2005Debris and open burning9.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20375
4 August 2011Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20390
4 August 2011Arson/incendiarism80 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20389
3 August 2011Arson/incendiarism450 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20387
3 August 2011Arson/incendiarism110 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20385

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pittsburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Blanco: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
H D Youngman Constr Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pittsburg County

Storms near this place

26 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blanco in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 18 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 2001HailBlanco$50,000no account filed
April 2020HailBlanco$30,000Golfball size hail damaged vehicles and the roofs of homes.
April 2020HailBlanco$15,000Golfball size hail damaged vehicles and the roofs of homes.
May 2020HailBlanco$15,000Golf ball size hail damaged vehicles and homes.
May 2010HailBlanco$10,000no account filed
May 2020Thunderstorm WindBlanco-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
November 2015Thunderstorm WindBlanco-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindBlanco-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
April 2011Flash FloodBlanco-Many roads in and around town were flooded.
May 2007Flash FloodBlanco-Heavy thunderstorm rains caused the low water crossing near Blanco to be flooded.
October 1997Flash FloodBlanco-Severe thunderstorms developed in McIntosh and Pittsburg Counties during the late evening of October 30th and early morning of October 31st. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 miles an hour near Kiowa, and quarter size hail fell 10 miles east of Checotah. Dime to nickel size hail fell at Eufaula and at Pittsburg, and dime size hail fell 4 miles northeast of Eufaula. The thunderstorms also produced very heavy rainfall which caused Brushy Creek to briefly overflow its banks resulting in flash flooding in the town of Blanco.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindBlanco-Severe thunderstorms in southern Pittsburg County produced strong winds in Blanco which blew down large tree limbs. Dime-size hail also fell in Blanco, and nickel-size hail covered the ground 10 miles south of Blanco.
June 1995HailBlanco-Severe thunderstorms in southern Pittsburg County produced strong winds in Blanco which blew down large tree limbs. Dime-size hail also fell in Blanco, and nickel-size hail covered the ground 10 miles south of Blanco.
April 2020HailBlanco-no account filed
June 2015HailBlanco-no account filed
April 2011HailBlanco-no account filed
April 2011HailBlanco-no account filed
May 2009HailBlanco-no account filed
April 2009HailBlanco-no account filed
September 2009HailBlanco-no account filed
March 2008HailBlanco-no account filed
May 2003HailBlanco-no account filed
May 2001HailBlanco-no account filed
May 2001HailBlanco-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindBlanco-no account filed
September 2001HailBlanco-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
Pittsburg4.8 miles17
Pine Top5.4 miles16
Arch6.2 miles17
Brewer6.3 miles18
Savanna6.5 miles18
Ti6.7 miles16
Kiowa6.9 miles17
Halley7.7 miles18

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 BlancoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4924941The 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 1090251. 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.