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Caney, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the West Atoka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74533. It stands on Caney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Caney quadrangle. 185 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Caney within Atoka County

Population over time

2 figures

Caney fell from 205 to 185 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
2010205
2020185-20 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Caney in 2012, burning under an acre 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 burning1

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
27 February 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry10024

Every fire recorded in Atoka County

Storms near this place

51 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caney in 51 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 37 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 2015Tornado (EF3)Caney1 hurtThe tornado moved into Atoka County from Bryan County and moved generally north dissipating east of Caney. Homes suffered significant damage in Atoka County (DI 2, up to DOD 8) and one injury was reported east of Caney.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindCaney$7,000Several tree limbs were downed, and shingles were blown off of several homes. Monetary damages were estimated.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindCaney$5,000Several tree limbs were downed. Monetary damages were estimated.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindCaney$4,000Several trees were blown down. Monetary damages were estimated.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindCaney$3,000Larges tree branches were blown down. Monetary damages were estimated.
August 2012HailCaney$2,000Trees were reported blown down at this location.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindCaney$2,000Several 6-inch diameter limbs were downed. Monetary damages were estimated.
March 2004Thunderstorm WindCaney$1,000Tree limbs were downed.
April 2026HailCaney-The report was relayed through mPING.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCaney-Multiple trees blown down on Buckholt Road. Report relayed by emergency management. Time is radar estimated.
June 2023HailCaney-MPing report.
October 2009Thunderstorm WindCaney-No damage was reported.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindCaney-Numerous power lines and trees were blown down. Several houses sustained major damage, including roofs being blown off. The damage was reported from five miles west of Atoka, east into the Atoka and Caney areas. Sporadic damage was also reported throughout the rest of the county. Monetary damage estimates were unavailable.
May 2007Flash FloodCaney-HWY 69 between Caddo and Caney was closed due to high water. Several rural roads were also closed.
April 2005HailCaney-Hail was reported covering the ground.
June 1995HailCaney-Severe thunderstorms moved across southern Oklahoma, producing large hail and strong winds. Hail as large as golf balls was reported in Madill in Marshall County. In Johnston County four miles west of Nida, wind speeds reached 60 mph.
April 2018HailCaney-no account filed
March 2012HailCaney-no account filed
March 2008HailCaney-no account filed
June 2007HailCaney-no account filed
May 2006HailCaney-no account filed
March 2005HailCaney-no account filed
October 2004HailCaney-no account filed
April 2003HailCaney-no account filed
October 2002HailCaney-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindCaney-no account filed
April 2001HailCaney-no account filed
April 2001HailCaney-no account filed
June 2001HailCaney-no account filed
June 1999HailCaney-no account filed
June 1999HailCaney-no account filed
June 1999HailCaney-no account filed
November 1999HailCaney-no account filed
April 1999HailCaney-no account filed
July 1998HailCaney-no account filed
June 1997HailCaney-no account filed
November 1996Thunderstorm WindCaney-no account filed
October 1996HailCaney-no account filed
October 1996Flash FloodCaney-no account filed
June 1995HailCaney-no account filed
July 1995HailCaney-no account filed
April 1994HailCaney-no account filed
April 1994HailCaney-no account filed
April 1994HailCaney-no account filed
June 1994HailCaney-no account filed
June 1994HailCaney-no account filed
June 1994HailCaney-no account filed
April 1994HailCaney-no account filed
April 1994HailCaney-no account filed
April 1994HailCaney-no account filed
April 1994HailCaney-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Atoka 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
Taloah1.9 miles14
Cook2.8 miles14
Tushka6.6 miles14
Bentley7.3 miles15
Hopewell8.4 miles14
Bruno10.7 miles16
Wilson10.8 miles15
Atoka11.5 miles17

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 CaneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2431790The 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 1090906. 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.