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Bluejacket, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the North Craig census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74333. The Survey maps it on the Welch South quadrangle. 235 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 781 feet above sea level.

Bluejacket within Craig County

Population over time

2 figures

Bluejacket fell from 339 to 235 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
2010339
2020235-104 (-31%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Bluejacket between 2010 and 2017, burning about 98 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
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1

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
1 April 2017Arson/incendiarism90 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
12 March 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.7 acresCherokee Nation TribeYELLOW TAPE
7 February 2012Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30062
9 December 2010Other causes1.5 acresCherokee Nation TribeCOOKED TURKEY
8 January 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresCherokee Nation TribeMULCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Craig County

Storms near this place

22 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bluejacket in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 12 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 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
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBluejacket$25,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several trees and destroyed an outbuilding.
May 2017HailBluejacket$25,000no account filed
April 2019Tornado (EF1)Bluejacket$15,000This is the first segment of a two-segment tornado. In Craig County, this tornado developed west of the S 4450 Road and moved east-northeast damaging a home, damaging outbuildings, and uprooting trees. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in this segment of the tornado was 90 to 100 mph. The tornado continued into Ottawa County.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindBluejacket$15,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour destroyed a barn two miles south of town, blew down a tree on top of a house two miles east of town and snapped large tree limbs in town.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindBluejacket$15,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew a trailer house elevated for transport over and also blew down several large tree limbs.
July 2017HailBluejacket$10,000no account filed
September 2012Thunderstorm WindBluejacket$5,000Strong thunderstorm wind damaged portions of the metal roof of a home and damaged a carport.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBluejacket$5,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew tree down onto power lines.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindBluejacket$2,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs and damaged the roof of a mobile home.
September 1999Thunderstorm WindBluejacket$2,000Power lines were blown down in Bluejacket.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBluejacket$1,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a power pole and numerous large tree limb.
July 2016Flash FloodBluejacket-Portions of several streets in town were flooded.
May 2011Flash FloodBluejacket-Highway 25 was closed due to flooding of the roadway in many places from east of Pyramid Corners through Bluejacket to near Highway 69.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindBluejacket-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour blew down numerous trees.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindBluejacket-Thunderstorm wind estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a few trees.
June 2023HailBluejacket-no account filed
April 2012HailBluejacket-no account filed
September 2009HailBluejacket-no account filed
April 2004HailBluejacket-no account filed
April 1999HailBluejacket-no account filed
April 1999Thunderstorm WindBluejacket-no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindBluejacket-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Craig 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
Pyramid Corners3.8 miles14
Welch5.3 miles14
Kelso6.8 miles14
Cocklebur Flat7.0 miles14
Todd9.2 miles14
Rogers10.5 miles15
Cornatzar11.3 miles14
Vinita12.0 miles14

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 BluejacketAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2533339The 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 1090300. 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.

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.