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Boatman, Oklahoma

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Pryor Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74361. The Survey maps it on the Salina quadrangle. It stands 659 feet above sea level.

Boatman within Mayes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Boatman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,552 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 37 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/incendiarism37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Debris and open burning10
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony3

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
22 September 2000Natural180 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryPRYOR CREEK
19 September 2000Natural1.8 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
30 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined32 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
3 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry30342
26 August 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
26 August 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
26 August 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
26 August 2000Natural1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mayes County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Boatman: 13 past producers, 7 producers, 1 unknown. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Oklahoma Cement Co.Clay PitsClayProducer
Oklahoma Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, ClayProducer
Saline Creek PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mayes County

Storms near this place

4 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boatman in 4 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 3 tornado, 1 hail. 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 2020HailBoatman$25,000Tennis ball size hail damaged vehicles and homes.
June 2025Tornado (EF1)Boatman-This tornado began south of Boatman, west of the S 439 Road. It moved east-northeast, uprooting trees and snapping numerous large tree limbs as it crossed the S 439 and S 440 Roads, as well as the E 530 Road. It moved across Lake Hudson, and then Highway 82. The tornado moved northeast, roughly paralleling the E 523 Road, and then crossed the S 4437th Road, and the E 508 Road before dissipating. Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted in the path east of Lake Hudson. This tornado produced a tornadic debris signature from the KINX WSR-88D. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 105 to 110 mph.
May 2019Tornado (EF1)Boatman-This tornado developed on the west side of Lake Hudson, and moved east-northeast across the lake south of Salina. It crossed Highway 82 and moved northeast uprooting trees, and snapping large tree limbs. The tornado dissipated near the E 483 Road, northeast of Salina. Based on the tree damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 85 to 95 mph. Trained storm spotters observed this tornado.
April 2019Tornado (EFU)Boatman-Multiple people observed a tornado over Lake Hudson. NWS Tulsa surveyed the area on the east side of the lake and found no damage, so the tornado was believed to have developed and dissipated over the lake.

Every storm recorded in Mayes 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
Salina2.9 miles15
Sportsmen Acres3.7 miles18
Locust Grove4.1 miles16
Sportsman Acres4.4 miles18
Little Rock5.9 miles15
Tip6.4 miles15
Snake Creek7.3 miles15
Iron Post7.3 miles16

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 BoatmanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4931531The 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 1100218. 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.