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.
Population over time
2 figuresBrushy 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 900 | |
| 2020 | 811 | -89 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 18 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.
- 1898 USGS Tahlequah quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Tahlequah quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
- 1905 USGS Tahlequah quadrangle1:125000
- 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Brushy quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Stilwell quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
349 since 1992Regional 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/incendiarism | 123 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 107 |
| Debris and open burning | 64 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Natural | 12 |
| Smoking | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 September 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 7.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 30464 |
| 28 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 30529 |
| 21 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2017 | Hail | Brushy | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brushy | $2,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs, and blew shingles off the roof of a home. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brushy | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour blew shingles off the roof of a home. |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brushy | $100 | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Flash Flood | Brushy | - | Several roads were flooded northeast of Brushy. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brushy | - | A storm spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts to 70 mph. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brushy | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a large tree. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Brushy | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Brushy | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akins | 3.9 miles | 18 | |
| Stoney Point | 4.3 miles | 18 | |
| Seven Oaks | 5.2 miles | 14 | |
| Marble City | 5.3 miles | 17 | |
| Flute Springs | 6.1 miles | 17 | |
| Dwight Mission | 6.7 miles | 17 | |
| Sallisaw | 7.4 miles | 15 | |
| Maple | 7.9 miles | 14 |
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 Brushy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2655490 | 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 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.








