Cora, Oklahoma

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Alva census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73717. The Survey maps it on the Tegarden quadrangle.

Cora within Woods County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1955 USGS Woodward quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Woodward quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1969 USGS Tegarden quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Alva quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Alva quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Cora between 2006 and 2011, burning about 5,180 acres 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
3 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5,150 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	TURKEY SPRINGS FIRE
4 January 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Pawnee Agency	KILLDEER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Tegarden

Every fire recorded in Woods County

Storms near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cora in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2004: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 1994	Hail	Cora	-	Thunderstorms in northwest Oklahoma during the afternoon and evening hours on the 2nd produced hail up to half dollar size and damaging lightning. A lightning strike nine miles north of Alva damaged electrical appliances.
June 1994	Hail	Cora	-	Thunderstorms in northwest Oklahoma during the afternoon and evening hours on the 2nd produced hail up to half dollar size and damaging lightning. A lightning strike nine miles north of Alva damaged electrical appliances.
June 1994	Hail	Cora	-	Thunderstorms in northwest Oklahoma during the afternoon and evening hours on the 2nd produced hail up to half dollar size and damaging lightning. A lightning strike nine miles north of Alva damaged electrical appliances.
August 2004	Hail	Cora	-	no account filed
March 1997	Hail	Cora	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Cora	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Woods 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Tegarden	2.8 miles	8
Fairvalley	7.1 miles	8
Avard	9.6 miles	8
Noel	10.5 miles	8
Freedom	10.6 miles	8
Winchester	12.7 miles	8
Alva	13.3 miles	8
Waynoka	15.0 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100321. 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.