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.
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
- Canadian Jail and Livery Stablelisted 1980
Population over time
3 figuresCanadian 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 239 | |
| 2010 | 220 | -19 (-8%) |
| 2020 | 143 | -77 (-35%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1900 USGS Canadian quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Canadian quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Eufaula quadrangle1:100000
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
55 since 1992Regional 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/incendiarism | 38 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20411 |
| 8 August 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20434 |
| 29 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 120 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20219 |
| 2 July 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20326 |
| 15 July 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 11 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20348 |
| 15 July 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20349 |
| 27 June 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 500 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20087 |
| 18 June 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20311 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
50 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2008 | Hail | Canadian | $25,000 | Golfball size hail damaged homes and automobiles. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Canadian | $20,000 | Ping pong ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles in Canadian. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canadian | $10,000 | Thunderstorm 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 2009 | Hail | Canadian | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canadian | $5,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind destroyed an awning and blew shingles off the roofs of homes. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canadian | $5,000 | Thunderstorm wind estimated at 60 mph blew down large tree limbs and a few large signs. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canadian | $2,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down power lines. |
| August 2023 | Flash Flood | Canadian | - | Portions of Highway 113 west of Canadian, and several streets in town were flooded. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canadian | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canadian | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canadian | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down several trees at Arrowhead State Park. |
| June 2001 | Flash Flood | Canadian | - | Heavy thunderstorm rains washed out a bridge near Lake Eufaula. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canadian | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs at Arrowhead State Park. |
| April 1999 | Hail | Canadian | - | Location: Arrowhead State Park |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Canadian | - | Spotters reported a brief tornado touchdown in open country. |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Canadian | - | Spotters reported a brief tornado touchdown in open country. |
| March 2016 | Hail | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| October 2009 | Hail | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| January 2006 | Hail | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| December 2003 | Hail | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| February 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canadian | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canadian | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sams Point | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Crowder | 3.8 miles | 14 | |
| Bristow Point | 4.5 miles | 17 | |
| Canadian Shores | 4.5 miles | 14 | |
| Carlton Landing | 6.2 miles | 13 | |
| Indianola | 6.4 miles | 14 | |
| Massey Point | 7.8 miles | 14 | |
| Reams | 8.1 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 Canadian | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1928988 | 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 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.






