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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.

Council Hill within Muskogee County

Population over time

2 figures

Council 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.

YearPeople Change
2010158
2020108-50 (-32%)

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

6 since 2006

Regional 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/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning2

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
5 April 2011Arson/incendiarism25 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30248
31 March 2010Debris and open burning8.4 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeHITCH CHURCH
5 November 2007Arson/incendiarism29 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeFELONY ARREST
27 January 2016Debris and open burning39 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeBAIL
25 January 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeROUNDHOUSE
18 January 2008Arson/incendiarism2.8 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeBURMA COW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskogee County

Storms near this place

17 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2008Tornado (EF0)Council Hill$125,000A 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 2022HailCouncil Hill$75,000Hen egg size hail damaged homes, businesses, and vehicles.
May 2010HailCouncil Hill$50,000no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindCouncil Hill$25,000Strong thunderstorm wind destroyed a mobile home and a barn and removed part of a metal roof from a permanent home.
September 2009HailCouncil Hill$15,000no account filed
August 2024Thunderstorm WindCouncil Hill$5,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew off portions of a roof from a barn.
January 1996Thunderstorm WindCouncil Hill$5,000no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindCouncil Hill$2,000Strong thunderstorm wind damaged the roof of a home and snapped large tree limbs.
October 1998Thunderstorm WindCouncil Hill$500Several trees were blown across OK Hwy 72 on the Muskogee/McIntosh County line.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindCouncil Hill-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to 70 mph just north of Council Hill on Highway 72.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindCouncil Hill-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large limbs from trees.
August 2017HailCouncil Hill-no account filed
January 2008HailCouncil Hill-no account filed
March 2008Thunderstorm WindCouncil Hill-no account filed
September 2001HailCouncil Hill-no account filed
March 2000HailCouncil Hill-no account filed
May 2000HailCouncil Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Muskogee 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
Wainwright6.1 miles14
Boynton6.4 miles15
Oak-Ta-Hah (historical)7.7 miles14
Oktaha9.5 miles19
Flusche9.9 miles14
Beland11.2 miles14
Crekola13.5 miles18
Jamesville13.8 miles15

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 HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2376435The 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.