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Cloudy, Oklahoma

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Finley-Rattan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74562. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cloudy quadrangle.

Cloudy within Pushmataha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

225 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 225 fires within 5 miles of Cloudy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,188 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 111 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/incendiarism111
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Debris and open burning29
Equipment and vehicle use23
Natural17
Recreation and ceremony4

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 2011Equipment and vehicle use20 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10546
5 September 2000Recreation and ceremony12 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2010Arson/incendiarism12 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10220
4 September 2010Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10221
4 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10222
4 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10223
30 September 2017Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pushmataha County

Storms near this place

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cloudy in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2011: 20 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2000HailCloudy$50,000Golfball size hail broke windows, damaged roofs and and damaged cars.
April 2000Tornado (F2)Cloudy$25,000A F2 tornado touched down west of Cloudy and traveled just south of Cloudy through rural areas of Pushmataha county before lifting 9 miles later east southeast of Cloudy. Only tree damage was observered.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindCloudy$1,500Trees and power lines were blown down.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindCloudy$1,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindCloudy$500no account filed
May 1997Thunderstorm WindCloudy$100Severe thunderstorm winds downed trees.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindCloudy$10Five-inch limbs were blown off trees by severe thunderstorm winds.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindCloudy-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew a satellite dish off a house and also blew down large tree limbs.
June 1995HailCloudy-A severe thunderstorm in Pushmataha County produced three-quarters inch hail three miles east of Cloudy.
June 2011HailCloudy-no account filed
April 2008HailCloudy-no account filed
May 2006HailCloudy-no account filed
July 2002HailCloudy-no account filed
May 2001HailCloudy-no account filed
June 2001HailCloudy-no account filed
June 2001HailCloudy-no account filed
May 2000HailCloudy-no account filed
April 1999HailCloudy-no account filed
January 1999HailCloudy-no account filed
March 1998HailCloudy-no account filed
May 1997HailCloudy-no account filed
March 1997HailCloudy-no account filed
May 1996HailCloudy-no account filed
March 1996HailCloudy-no account filed
April 1994HailCloudy-no account filed
March 1993HailCloudy-no account filed
March 1993HailCloudy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pushmataha 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
Oleta7.8 miles15
Corinne8.0 miles15
Pine Knot Crossing8.2 miles17
North Sobol8.3 miles17
Snow9.5 miles15
Rattan9.9 miles16
Sobol10.0 miles17
Burwell10.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1091483. 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.