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Connerville, Oklahoma

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Tishomingo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74836. The Survey maps it on the Connerville quadrangle. 59 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,014 feet above sea level.

Connerville within Johnston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Connerville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,606 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
19 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,060 acresChickasaw AgencyHARDEN
23 June 2011Debris and open burning11 acresChickasaw AgencySIMMONS
29 March 2005Arson/incendiarism50 acresChickasaw AgencyREFUGE
2 February 1997Debris and open burning200 acresWewoka AgencyA. HARJO
25 December 2007Debris and open burning229 acresChickasaw AgencyEASTERLING
13 December 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined26 acresChickasaw AgencyHOWELL
12 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChickasaw Agency377
18 October 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChickasaw AgencyOTT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnston County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Connerville: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Dolomite. 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
Unknown Dolomite QuarryDolomitePast Producer
Unknown Dolomite QuarryDolomitePast Producer
Unknown Dolomite QuarryDolomitePast Producer
Unknown Dolomite QuarryDolomitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Johnston County

Storms near this place

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Connerville in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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 2016Tornado (EF3)Connerville1 killed, $250,000The tornado formed near US-377/OK-99 in northern Johnston County about 4 miles south of Connerville. The tornado damage trees and power poles, and caused roof damage to a home as it crossed Tower Road. Passing Deadman Spring Road, the tornado destroyed a modular home where the fatality occurred. A truck parked at this house was carried 250 yards to the east. The tornado continued moving east-northeast with more tree damage, and light damage to a couple of houses at the edge of the tornado path. Fortunately as the tornado had weakened as it approached the town of Bromide with only light tree damage observed there. ||From about 1.25 miles west of Bromide to where it dissipated just east of Bromide, the tornado moved down the Johnston-Coal county line affecting both counties. The center line of the tornado moved into Coal County in Bromide.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindConnerville$5,000Winds partially removed a roof off a metal building.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindConnerville$600Several trees and power lines were blown down.
April 2026HailConnerville-The report was relayed by emergency management. The location is approximate.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindConnerville-Tree uprooted and minor damage to an outbuilding. The event time is estimated based on radar observations.
March 2024HailConnerville-MPing report.
March 2024HailConnerville-Measured with digital calipers.
September 2018Flash FloodConnerville-Harris Ranch road closed due to being under water.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindConnerville-Tree limbs downed.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindConnerville-Tree damage was blocking Coatsworth road near Deadman Springs road. Time estimated.
March 2016HailConnerville-No damage was reported.
May 2022HailConnerville-no account filed
September 2016Thunderstorm WindConnerville-no account filed
March 2006HailConnerville-no account filed
June 2001HailConnerville-no account filed
May 1997Funnel CloudConnerville-no account filed
May 1997Funnel CloudConnerville-no account filed
April 1994HailConnerville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnston 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
Pontotoc2.9 miles13
Bromide7.6 miles15
Reagan8.2 miles14
Mill Creek10.5 miles15
Bromide Junction11.2 miles15
Troy11.3 miles15
Wapanucka12.3 miles14
Fillmore14.1 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 ConnervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5161785The 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 1091615. 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.