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Canadian, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the North Central Pittsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74425. It stands on Gibson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Canadian quadrangle. 143 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 666 feet above sea level.

Canadian within Pittsburg County

On record in Canadian

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 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Canadian fell from 239 to 143 between 2000 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
2000239
2010220-19 (-8%)
2020143-77 (-35%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Canadian between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,946 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 38 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/incendiarism38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning4
Natural1

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 2005Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20411
8 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry20434
29 August 2010Debris and open burning120 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20219
2 July 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry20326
15 July 2011Arson/incendiarism11 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20348
15 July 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry20349
27 June 2012Arson/incendiarism500 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20087
18 June 2011Arson/incendiarism10 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20311

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pittsburg County

Storms near this place

50 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canadian in 50 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 30 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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
April 2008HailCanadian$25,000Golfball size hail damaged homes and automobiles.
September 2023HailCanadian$20,000Ping pong ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles in Canadian.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCanadian$10,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 100 miles an hour by a trained spotter blew a storage building into a road. Power lines were also blown down.
March 2009HailCanadian$10,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCanadian$5,000Strong thunderstorm wind destroyed an awning and blew shingles off the roofs of homes.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindCanadian$5,000Thunderstorm wind estimated at 60 mph blew down large tree limbs and a few large signs.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCanadian$2,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down power lines.
August 2023Flash FloodCanadian-Portions of Highway 113 west of Canadian, and several streets in town were flooded.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindCanadian-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCanadian-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindCanadian-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down several trees at Arrowhead State Park.
June 2001Flash FloodCanadian-Heavy thunderstorm rains washed out a bridge near Lake Eufaula.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindCanadian-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs at Arrowhead State Park.
April 1999HailCanadian-Location: Arrowhead State Park
June 1999Tornado (F0)Canadian-Spotters reported a brief tornado touchdown in open country.
June 1999Tornado (F0)Canadian-Spotters reported a brief tornado touchdown in open country.
March 2016HailCanadian-no account filed
April 2009HailCanadian-no account filed
May 2009HailCanadian-no account filed
October 2009HailCanadian-no account filed
April 2008HailCanadian-no account filed
March 2008HailCanadian-no account filed
March 2008HailCanadian-no account filed
March 2006HailCanadian-no account filed
January 2006HailCanadian-no account filed
April 2006HailCanadian-no account filed
May 2006HailCanadian-no account filed
March 2005HailCanadian-no account filed
July 2005HailCanadian-no account filed
April 2004HailCanadian-no account filed
April 2004HailCanadian-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindCanadian-no account filed
December 2003HailCanadian-no account filed
April 2003HailCanadian-no account filed
February 2002Thunderstorm WindCanadian-no account filed
March 2002HailCanadian-no account filed
March 2002Thunderstorm WindCanadian-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindCanadian-no account filed
May 2001HailCanadian-no account filed
May 2001HailCanadian-no account filed
June 2001HailCanadian-no account filed
June 2001HailCanadian-no account filed
June 1998HailCanadian-no account filed
March 1998HailCanadian-no account filed
March 1998HailCanadian-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindCanadian-no account filed
June 1996HailCanadian-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindCanadian-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindCanadian-no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindCanadian-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pittsburg 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
Sams Point2.3 miles14
Crowder3.8 miles14
Bristow Point4.5 miles17
Canadian Shores4.5 miles14
Carlton Landing6.2 miles13
Indianola6.4 miles14
Massey Point7.8 miles14
Reams8.1 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 CanadianAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1928988The 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 1090889. 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.