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Fallis, Oklahoma

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Wellston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74881. The Survey maps it on the Wellston quadrangle. 21 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 971 feet above sea level.

Fallis within Lincoln County

Population over time

2 figures

Fallis fell from 27 to 21 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
201027
202021-6 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Fallis in 2015, burning about 281 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined1

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
25 January 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined281 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryFALLIS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fallis: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fallis in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 4 hail, 1 lightning, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 4 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
May 2013Tornado (EF3)Fallis4 hurtThe large tornado continued to move northeast from Logan County into Lincoln County. The tornado passed just southeast of Fallis and then clipped the southeastern portion of Carney. It produced EF3 damage to a number of homes from just south of Carney into the southeast portion of the town. The tornado finally dissipated about 3 miles southeast of Tryon. Motions observed visually in this tornado suggest that the tornado was likely stronger then EF3 in western Lincoln County, but no damage indicators were available that would have supplied a rating higher than EF3 in this area.
June 2005LightningFallis$10,000An oil tank battery was struck by lightning and caught fire.
October 2018Thunderstorm WindFallis$3,000Siding removed from a house. Time estimated by radar.
May 2021Flash FloodFallis-Water nearly into houses, flooded yards and streets.
July 1994HailFallis-Thunderstorms in central Oklahoma during the evening hours on the 12th resulted in hail up to quarter-size, damaging winds and damaging lightning. Thunderstorm winds ripped an awning from a downtown store and damaged a firework stand in Chandler. A lightning strike damaged light fixtures at a home 2 miles northwest of Warwick.
May 2021HailFallis-no account filed
June 2011HailFallis-no account filed
March 2003HailFallis-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Ingram3.5 miles10
Wellston4.8 miles10
Dudley5.2 miles11
Emsey5.3 miles11
Carney7.1 miles11
Warwick7.5 miles10
Merrick7.5 miles11
Anderson8.8 miles10

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 FallisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2006990The 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 1092753. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.