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Countyline, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Velma-Alma census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73425. The Survey maps it on the Ratliff City quadrangle. It stands 1,050 feet above sea level.

Countyline within Stephens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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

16 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Countyline between 2006 and 2010, burning about 47,490 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Debris and open burning1

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
27 July 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChickasaw AgencySANNER RANCH
26 July 2006Power generation/transmission/distribution3.5 acresChickasaw AgencyWILDPRATT
19 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreChickasaw AgencyBLOODWORTH
9 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined23,824 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryRATLIFF CITY/TATUMS
9 March 2008Arson/incendiarism3.1 acresChickasaw AgencyLAWN DRUNK
5 March 2008Power generation/transmission/distribution15 acresChickasaw AgencyPERKINS FARM
30 March 2010Naturalunder an acreChickasaw AgencyPENNINGTON
26 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChickasaw AgencyPINTO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stephens County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Countyline in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 2 hail. 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 2025HailCountyline-The report was relayed through mPING. Event time adjusted based on radar observations.
May 2019HailCountyline-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stephens 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
Alma3.3 miles14
Velma5.9 miles14
Santa Fe7.2 miles14
Loco10.4 miles14
Harrisburg12.1 miles15
Hope16.7 miles16
Bray18.8 miles16
Oklahoma Hills19.5 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 CountylineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3474893The 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 1091753. 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.