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Clarita, Oklahoma

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the West Coal census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74535. The Survey maps it on the Wapanucka North quadrangle. 135 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 676 feet above sea level.

Clarita within Coal County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Clarita between 2006 and 2020, burning about 386 acres in total. 1 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
15 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTalihina AgencyCLARITA
2 March 2007Debris and open burning346 acresChickasaw AgencyBURK VALLEY
8 February 2006Naturalunder an acreTalihina AgencyMCKENZIE
20 November 2020Debris and open burning39 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coal County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Clarita: 16 past producers, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Iron, Manganese. 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
Moseley Creek Number 4Iron, ManganeseProspect1897
Moseley Creek No 1 BromideManganeseProspect1890
Moseley Creek No 2 BromideManganeseProspect1890
Moseley Creek No 3 BromideManganesePast Producer1892
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Coal County

Storms near this place

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarita in 16 storm reports between 1993 and 2018: 11 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
August 1997Thunderstorm WindClarita$100A three-foot diameter tree was uprooted.
September 2018Flash FloodClarita-Roadways reported under water.
May 2017Flash FloodClarita-County road 1750 near Clarita was flooded.
May 2017HailClarita-no account filed
May 2017HailClarita-no account filed
May 2017HailClarita-no account filed
April 2005HailClarita-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindClarita-no account filed
March 2002HailClarita-no account filed
February 1998HailClarita-no account filed
October 1996HailClarita-no account filed
July 1995HailClarita-no account filed
July 1995HailClarita-no account filed
April 1994HailClarita-no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindClarita-no account filed
May 1993HailClarita-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coal 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
Olney3.9 miles14
East Jesse8.0 miles11
Tupelo8.4 miles14
Centrahoma9.9 miles14
Phillips11.4 miles14
Lehigh11.5 miles17
Coalgate12.0 miles14
Cottonwood13.2 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 ClaritaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5127085The 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 1091387. 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.