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Farris, Oklahoma

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Central Atoka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74525. It stands on East Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Farris quadrangle.

Farris within Atoka County

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

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Farris between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,914 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 27 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/undetermined33
Arson/incendiarism27
Debris and open burning22
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural7

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
6 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10473
30 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10334
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2000Natural1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
7 August 2006Natural9.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10474
31 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use15 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Atoka 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 Farris: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Atoka County

Storms near this place

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farris in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 14 hail, 2 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 2015Thunderstorm WindFarris-No damage reported.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindFarris-No damage reported.
April 2020HailFarris-no account filed
March 2008HailFarris-no account filed
March 2008HailFarris-no account filed
April 2008HailFarris-no account filed
November 1999HailFarris-no account filed
March 1998HailFarris-no account filed
June 1998HailFarris-no account filed
April 1996HailFarris-no account filed
November 1996Flash FloodFarris-no account filed
March 1996HailFarris-no account filed
March 1994HailFarris-no account filed
April 1994HailFarris-no account filed
April 1994HailFarris-no account filed
April 1994HailFarris-no account filed
April 1994HailFarris-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
Old Farris1.4 miles15
Payton Crossing2.4 miles17
Crystal4.2 miles15
Darwin4.7 miles16
Negro Bend5.7 miles17
Lone Pine5.8 miles16
Boehler6.4 miles15
Lane6.9 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 FarrisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5436314The 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 1092768. 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.