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Brushy, Oklahoma

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Sallisaw North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74955. The Survey maps it on the Brushy quadrangle. 811 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 968 feet above sea level.

Brushy within Sequoyah County

Population over time

2 figures

Brushy fell from 900 to 811 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
2010900
2020811-89 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

349 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 349 fires within 5 miles of Brushy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,628 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 123 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/incendiarism123
Missing data/not specified/undetermined107
Debris and open burning64
Equipment and vehicle use16
Natural12
Smoking11
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1998Debris and open burning4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism20 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance7.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30464
28 September 2004Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30529
21 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sequoyah County

Storms near this place

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brushy in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
December 2017HailBrushy$5,000no account filed
March 2019Thunderstorm WindBrushy$2,000Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs, and blew shingles off the roof of a home.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindBrushy$1,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour blew shingles off the roof of a home.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindBrushy$100no account filed
June 2019Flash FloodBrushy-Several roads were flooded northeast of Brushy.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBrushy-A storm spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts to 70 mph.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindBrushy-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a large tree.
May 2020HailBrushy-no account filed
April 2011HailBrushy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sequoyah 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
Akins3.9 miles18
Stoney Point4.3 miles18
Seven Oaks5.2 miles14
Marble City5.3 miles17
Flute Springs6.1 miles17
Dwight Mission6.7 miles17
Sallisaw7.4 miles15
Maple7.9 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 BrushyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2655490The 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 1100242. 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.