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Bowring, Oklahoma

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Pawhuska census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74056. The Survey maps it on the Bowring quadrangle. 78 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Bowring within Osage County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

17 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Bowring between 2002 and 2016, burning about 15,059 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 burning6
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined110 acresOsage AgencyWAH-SHA-SHE
1 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOsage AgencyGUSHER
26 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreOsage AgencyJOHN DEERE
2 August 2012Natural10 acresOsage AgencyHICKEY
19 April 2008Debris and open burning12 acresOsage AgencyLONE RANGER
29 March 2002Debris and open burning3,035 acresOsage AgencyHULAH
28 March 2002Debris and open burning8,000 acresOsage AgencyHULAH2
25 March 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreOsage AgencyDAGGER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osage County

Storms near this place

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bowring in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 12 thunderstorm wind, 7 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
October 1998Thunderstorm WindBowring$100Large tree limbs were blown down
June 1997Thunderstorm WindBowring$100no account filed
April 2024Thunderstorm WindBowring-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped numerous large tree limbs west of Hulah.
May 2008HailBowring-One and a half inch hail fell 3 miles southwest of Elgin, Kansas.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBowring-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs at Hulah Lake.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindBowring-The automated observing equipment at Frank Phillips Airport near Bartlesville measured a wind gust of 71 miles an hour.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindBowring-60 mph winds at Wah-Sha-She State Park knocked down power lines.
June 2002HailBowring-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindBowring-no account filed
April 1998HailBowring-no account filed
May 1998HailBowring-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindBowring-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindBowring-no account filed
May 1997Thunderstorm WindBowring-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindBowring-no account filed
April 1995HailBowring-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindBowring-no account filed
August 1994HailBowring-no account filed
March 1993HailBowring-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Osage 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
Oak Ridge1.4 miles12
Whippoorwill2.4 miles12
Herd4.4 miles15
Hickory Hill4.7 miles12
Hulah5.7 miles12
Bigheart5.9 miles15
Boulangerville7.5 miles12
Boulanger Landing7.6 miles12

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 BowringAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4951397The 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 1090431. 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.