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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.

Boley within Okfuskee County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Boley 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,184
20201,091-93 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

32 since 2004

Regional 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 burning10
Arson/incendiarism10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 July 2012Debris and open burning6.0 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeHILLIE
19 April 2006Arson/incendiarism150 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeTHORTON
10 April 2006Arson/incendiarism4,100 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeDANIELS
8 March 2015Debris and open burning10 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeOKFUSKEE
7 March 2015Debris and open burning68 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeWILLIAMSON
4 March 2007Debris and open burning1.2 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeBOLEY
31 March 2011Natural162 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeBOLE
26 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined136 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeICY BRIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Okfuskee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 45 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Okfuskee County

Storms near this place

21 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 1998Tornado (F2)Boley4 hurt, $500,000A 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 2015Flash FloodBoley$100,000Several bridges within the city limits were washed out by flood water.
May 2010Tornado (EF1)Boley$40,000A 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 2010Thunderstorm WindBoley$4,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several power poles.
March 2015Thunderstorm WindBoley-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees and snapped large tree limbs north of Boley.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindBoley-At the correctional facility in Boley.
May 1995HailBoley-,,,,,,,,Thunderstorm Winds (G52)
April 2017HailBoley-no account filed
April 2017HailBoley-no account filed
April 2011HailBoley-no account filed
April 2011HailBoley-no account filed
May 2008HailBoley-no account filed
May 2008HailBoley-no account filed
May 2002HailBoley-no account filed
May 2002HailBoley-no account filed
May 1999HailBoley-no account filed
April 1996HailBoley-no account filed
April 1996HailBoley-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindBoley-no account filed
October 1994HailBoley-no account filed
October 1993HailBoley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Okfuskee 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
Chilesville4.1 miles11
Paden4.6 miles10
IXL5.4 miles11
Castle5.5 miles13
Mason8.6 miles11
Midway9.1 miles10
Micawber9.2 miles10
Welty10.0 miles11

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 BoleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2399645The 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.