Boley, Oklahoma
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Boley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74829. The Survey maps it on the Boley quadrangle. 1,091 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 892 feet above sea level.
On record in Boley
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
Boley Historic DistrictNational Historic Landmark · listed 1975
Population over time
2 figuresBoley fell from 1,184 to 1,091 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,184 | |
| 2020 | 1,091 | -93 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1900 USGS Wewoka quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Boley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Shawnee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
32 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Boley between 2004 and 2020, burning about 8,572 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | HILLIE |
| 19 April 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 150 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | THORTON |
| 10 April 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 4,100 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | DANIELS |
| 8 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | OKFUSKEE |
| 7 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 68 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | WILLIAMSON |
| 4 March 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.2 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | BOLEY |
| 31 March 2011 | Natural | 162 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | BOLE |
| 26 March 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 136 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | ICY BRIDGE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 45 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 45 workings within 5 miles of Boley: 45 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
21 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boley in 21 storm reports between 1993 and 2017: 14 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1998 | Tornado (F2) | Boley | 4 hurt, $500,000 | A significant long-track tornado occurred on the evening of October 4, following a 27-mile track from 2 miles southeast of Boley in Okfuskee County to 3 miles southwest of Nuyaka in Okmulgee County. The tornado first touched down in Okfuskee County at 1037 PM CDT and lifted over Okmulgee County at 1108 PM CDT. (This Tornado entry covers that part of the track in Okfuskee County. See the separate Tornado entry for details on the portion in Okmulgee County.) The most significant damage to structures occurred near the communities of IXL and Haydenville, while much of the damage in the rural areas across which the tornado tracked consisted of downed/uprooted trees.In the small community of IXL, located on OK Hwy 48 north of Okemah, nearly every structure sustained at least some damage. An NWS Storm Survey revealed F2 damage at IXL, where a house and two mobile homes were destroyed. Pieces of one mobile home were found one-half mile away. A local newspaper also reported four businesses and a public building at the IXL Park were destroyed. Six houses and two more mobile homes sustained major damage, while another 21 houses and one mobile home sustained minor damage.In Haydenville, located north of Okemah on OK Hwy 56, two single-family houses and a mobile home were destroyed. Three houses, three mobile homes, and one public building (the Haydenville Fire Station) sustained major damage. Five houses and one business (the Haydenville Store) sustained minor damage. An NWS Storm Survey revealed F2 damage just southwest of Haydenville, where a mobile home was completely destroyed. Four people inside the trailer were injured, one of them critically. The tie-downs on the double-wide trailer were snapped, and the home appeared to have travelled a significant distance before disintegrating.This tornado was unusual for the fact that it covered such a large area. A survey showed that the damage path was at times 3 miles wide, lending credence to the idea that there were several smaller tornadoes circulating around the larger tornado. The larger tornado reached as wide as 8/10 of a mile. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Boley | $100,000 | Several bridges within the city limits were washed out by flood water. |
| May 2010 | Tornado (EF1) | Boley | $40,000 | A tornado removed a large section of the roof of the Boley Police Department, damaged homes, snapped or uprooted numerous trees and blew down power poles. The estimated peak wind in the tornado based on this damage was 105 mph. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boley | $4,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several power poles. |
| March 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boley | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees and snapped large tree limbs north of Boley. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boley | - | At the correctional facility in Boley. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Boley | - | ,,,,,,,,Thunderstorm Winds (G52) |
| April 2017 | Hail | Boley | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Boley | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Boley | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Boley | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Boley | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Boley | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Boley | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Boley | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Boley | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Boley | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Boley | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boley | - | no account filed |
| October 1994 | Hail | Boley | - | no account filed |
| October 1993 | Hail | Boley | - | 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 Boley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2399645 | 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 1090385. 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.





