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Cameron, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Cameron census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74932. It stands on Cameron Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Spiro quadrangle. 323 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 499 feet above sea level.

Cameron within Le Flore County

On record in Cameron

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Cameron grew from 302 to 323 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
2010302
2020323+21 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

25 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Cameron between 1993 and 2016, burning about 847 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use4

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
9 September 2011Arson/incendiarism35 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20429
27 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry20374
14 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20474
13 September 2005Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20421
12 September 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20417
22 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
16 August 2006Debris and open burning10 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20444
29 July 2008Arson/incendiarism22 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20178

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Le Flore County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Cameron: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Hamilton PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rock Island StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Le Flore County

Storms near this place

29 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cameron in 29 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 17 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 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
February 1997Thunderstorm WindCameron2 hurt, $120,000no account filed
April 2026HailCameron$30,000Golf ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
August 2019HailCameron$15,000no account filed
August 2014Thunderstorm WindCameron$5,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees and power lines.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindCameron$5,000Emergency management personnel estimated 70 mph thunderstorm wind gusts with trees and power lines blown down.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindCameron$4,000Winds peeled the roof off of a mobile home.
March 2013Thunderstorm WindCameron-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindCameron-Large tree limbs were blown down by strong thunderstorm wind in Cameron.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindCameron-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew trees down.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindCameron-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a tree.
February 2023HailCameron-no account filed
April 2022HailCameron-no account filed
April 2016HailCameron-no account filed
April 2014HailCameron-no account filed
March 2013HailCameron-no account filed
April 2011HailCameron-no account filed
June 2011HailCameron-no account filed
February 2009Thunderstorm WindCameron-no account filed
March 2006HailCameron-no account filed
April 2005HailCameron-no account filed
November 2004HailCameron-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindCameron-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindCameron-no account filed
May 1998HailCameron-no account filed
June 1998HailCameron-no account filed
March 1998HailCameron-no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindCameron-no account filed
June 1995HailCameron-no account filed
October 1993HailCameron-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Le Flore 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
Williams2.3 miles14
Tahona4.1 miles14
Hill4.4 miles23
Rock Island4.6 miles23
Neff5.2 miles16
Gilmore5.6 miles16
Shady Point6.6 miles14
Witteville7.0 miles16

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 CameronAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3287252The 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 1090830. 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.