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Eucha, Oklahoma

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Jay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74342. The Survey maps it on the Chloeta quadrangle. It stands 1,122 feet above sea level.

Eucha within Delaware County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

536 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 536 fires within 5 miles of Eucha between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,313 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 223 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/incendiarism223
Missing data/not specified/undetermined176
Debris and open burning66
Natural23
Equipment and vehicle use19
Recreation and ceremony15
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
9 September 2001Natural1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresCherokee Nation TribeGRAVEL PIT
5 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use10 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2000Natural1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30479

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eucha in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 hail. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 2011Tornado (EF2)Eucha3 hurt, $100,000A tornado destroyed a mobile home, injuring three people. Several other mobile homes were severely damaged. Trees were snapped or uprooted. Maximum estimated wind in the tornado based on this damage was about 125 mph.
March 2024HailEucha$15,000Hail larger than golf ball size damaged vehicles and homes.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindEucha$500Park ranger reported numerous large tree limbs down
October 2021Tornado (EF1)Eucha-This tornado developed along the leading edge of a strong convective line of thunderstorms, west of County Road 586, and south of Eucha Lake. It moved northeast across Highway 59, and dissipated north of County Road 458, and east of Eucha Lake. The tornado snapped and uprooted numerous trees along its path. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 95 to 105 mph.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindEucha-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew a few trees down.
November 2001Thunderstorm WindEucha-no account filed
December 1998Thunderstorm WindEucha-no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindEucha-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Tagg Flats4.3 miles19
Old Eucha4.6 miles19
Jay5.0 miles19
Chloeta5.1 miles19
Brush Creek5.4 miles19
Bull Hollow5.6 miles19
Zena7.4 miles19
Kenwood7.6 miles19

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 EuchaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5405796The 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 1100400. 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.