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Burneyville, Oklahoma

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the West Love census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73430. The Survey maps it on the Burneyville quadrangle. 815 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 771 feet above sea level.

Burneyville within Love County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

16 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Burneyville between 2006 and 2018, burning about 134 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
8 August 2013Debris and open burning11 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE ON CR 402
21 July 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS CR411
19 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use12 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE ON 403
9 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
19 June 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE ON CR 408
22 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFIRE ON 403

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Love County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Burneyville: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 PitStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Love County

Storms near this place

47 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burneyville in 47 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 33 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
November 1996Thunderstorm WindBurneyville$25,000no account filed
September 2019Thunderstorm WindBurneyville$500Garage/out-building was destroyed on White Road in Jimtown.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-Burneyville (BURN) Mesonet observation.
April 2025HailBurneyville-The report was relayed through mPING.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-A small storage shed was damaged by thunderstorm winds. Event time is estimated from radar observations.
May 2025HailBurneyville-The report was relayed through mPING.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-Burneyville (BURN) Mesonet observation.
May 2025HailBurneyville-An image from along Eastman Road was shared. The location is approximate, and the event time is estimated from radar observations.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-Burneyville (BURN) Mesonet observation.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-Burneyville (BURN) Mesonet observation.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-Burneyville (BURN) Mesonet observation.
May 2024Tornado (EFU)Burneyville-Storm chasers observed a tornado north-northeast of Burneyville. No damage was reported and the location is estimated.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-Several trees down in the town of Burneyville. Time is radar estimated.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-Burneyville (BURN) Mesonet observation.
May 2015Flash FloodBurneyville-Numerous streets and rural roads covered in high water. Creeks and streams overflowing. Up to two inches of rainfall in 30 minutes at a nearby Oklahoma Mesonet station.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-Extreme northwest wind measured at Burneyville mestonet site. No damage was reported.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-Measured by the Oklahoma Mesonet
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-Measured by the Oklahoma Mesonet
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-Measured by the Oklahoma Mesonet
March 2025HailBurneyville-no account filed
March 2023Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-no account filed
August 2022Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-no account filed
May 2022HailBurneyville-no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-no account filed
May 2021HailBurneyville-no account filed
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-no account filed
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-no account filed
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-no account filed
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-no account filed
May 2020HailBurneyville-no account filed
May 2020Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-no account filed
May 2020Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-no account filed
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-no account filed
March 2019Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-no account filed
May 2019Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-no account filed
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-no account filed
April 2011HailBurneyville-no account filed
March 2006HailBurneyville-no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-no account filed
May 2003HailBurneyville-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBurneyville-no account filed
June 1998HailBurneyville-no account filed
June 1995HailBurneyville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Love 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
Dunbar2.3 miles13
Turner2.7 miles13
Pike4.4 miles13
Jimtown5.3 miles13
Eastman5.7 miles13
Leon7.7 miles13
Oswalt8.6 miles16
Rubottom9.2 miles13

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 BurneyvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4999715The 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 1090721. 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.