Council Hill, Oklahoma
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Boynton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74428. The Survey maps it on the Council Hill quadrangle. 108 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 659 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCouncil Hill fell from 158 to 108 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 158 | |
| 2020 | 108 | -50 (-32%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1896 USGS Okmulgee quadrangle1:125000
- 1900 USGS Okmulgee quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Council Hill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Muskogee quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Council Hill between 2006 and 2016, burning about 106 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/incendiarism | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 30248 |
| 31 March 2010 | Debris and open burning | 8.4 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | HITCH CHURCH |
| 5 November 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 29 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | FELONY ARREST |
| 27 January 2016 | Debris and open burning | 39 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | BAIL |
| 25 January 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | ROUNDHOUSE |
| 18 January 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.8 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | BURMA COW |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Council Hill in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Council Hill | $125,000 | A tornado developed in Council Hill and moved east southeast, dissipating over open country in McIntosh County. The tornado damaged the roof of a church, damaged the roofs of several homes, and caused tree damage in Council Hill. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Council Hill | $75,000 | Hen egg size hail damaged homes, businesses, and vehicles. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Council Hill | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Council Hill | $25,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind destroyed a mobile home and a barn and removed part of a metal roof from a permanent home. |
| September 2009 | Hail | Council Hill | $15,000 | no account filed |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Council Hill | $5,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind blew off portions of a roof from a barn. |
| January 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Council Hill | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Council Hill | $2,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind damaged the roof of a home and snapped large tree limbs. |
| October 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Council Hill | $500 | Several trees were blown across OK Hwy 72 on the Muskogee/McIntosh County line. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Council Hill | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to 70 mph just north of Council Hill on Highway 72. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Council Hill | - | Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large limbs from trees. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Council Hill | - | no account filed |
| January 2008 | Hail | Council Hill | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Council Hill | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Council Hill | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Council Hill | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Council Hill | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wainwright | 6.1 miles | 14 | |
| Boynton | 6.4 miles | 15 | |
| Oak-Ta-Hah (historical) | 7.7 miles | 14 | |
| Oktaha | 9.5 miles | 19 | |
| Flusche | 9.9 miles | 14 | |
| Beland | 11.2 miles | 14 | |
| Crekola | 13.5 miles | 18 | |
| Jamesville | 13.8 miles | 15 |
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 Council Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2376435 | The 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 1091739. 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.







