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Daisy, Oklahoma

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the North Atoka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74540. It lies near Happy Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Daisy quadrangle. It stands 735 feet above sea level.

Daisy within Atoka County

On record in Daisy

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

183 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 183 fires within 5 miles of Daisy between 1992 and 2019, burning about 8,960 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 56 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/undetermined57
Arson/incendiarism56
Debris and open burning24
Equipment and vehicle use19
Natural18
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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
8 September 2000Arson/incendiarism25 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2005Debris and open burning15 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10476
5 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10530
5 September 2010Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10225
5 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use15 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10468
5 September 2000Misuse of fire by a minor8.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 1999Naturalunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2003Arson/incendiarism20 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10415

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Atoka County

Storms near this place

23 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Daisy in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 14 hail, 4 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
May 2008Tornado (EF2)Daisy$75,000The tornado continued into Pushmataha county before lifting 2.75 miles WSW of Adel. In Atoka County, three houses were damaged. The roof was removed and some of the exterior walls on one well-built home were collapsed. Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped above the ground. Monetary damage were estimated.
April 2011Tornado (EF1)Daisy$50,000This tornado developed to the south of Daisy in northeast Atoka County, then moved east-northeast into Pushmataha and Pittsburg Counties (see Storm Data for eastern Oklahoma for the Pushmataha and Pittsburg County segments of this tornado.) Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted, roof damage was observed to at least two homes, and a barn suffered severe damage. Monetary damages were estimated.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindDaisy$25,000A tree fell on a mobile home.
April 2011Tornado (EF1)Daisy$10,000Numerous large trees were snapped and uprooted by a tornado that paralleled a larger tornado to the north. Monetary damages were estimated.
June 1999LightningDaisy$2,000no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindDaisy$500Ten to twelve inch diameter hickory, red oak, and elm tree limbs were snapped.
March 2000Tornado (F1)Daisy$500This tornado formed about 2.5 miles east of Daisy in extreme eastern Atoka County and was confirmed by a damage survey from a National Weather Service meteorologist. The tornado tracked for approximately 1/2 mile and sheared in half numerous large trees on or near Clayton Road.
April 2026HailDaisy-The report was relayed by emergency management.
April 2020HailDaisy-no account filed
June 2011HailDaisy-no account filed
April 2011HailDaisy-no account filed
May 2010HailDaisy-no account filed
May 2008HailDaisy-no account filed
May 2003HailDaisy-no account filed
March 2000HailDaisy-no account filed
March 2000HailDaisy-no account filed
March 2000HailDaisy-no account filed
March 2000Thunderstorm WindDaisy-no account filed
January 1996HailDaisy-no account filed
November 1996Flash FloodDaisy-no account filed
June 1995HailDaisy-no account filed
April 1994HailDaisy-no account filed
April 1993HailDaisy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Atoka 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
Goss2.8 miles17
Redden5.9 miles17
Wesley9.1 miles17
Fugate11.1 miles16
Limestone Gap13.1 miles17
Reynolds13.5 miles17
Burg13.9 miles17
Chockie14.1 miles17

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 DaisyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5209670The 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 1100339. 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.