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Finley, Oklahoma

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Finley-Rattan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74543. It stands on Dog Creek. The Survey maps it on the Finley quadrangle. 38 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 489 feet above sea level.

Finley within Pushmataha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

188 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Finley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,943 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 61 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/incendiarism61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined50
Debris and open burning44
Equipment and vehicle use17
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2015Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresTalihina Agency0433
29 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10265
27 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 1999Debris and open burning40 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pushmataha County

Storms near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Finley in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2012: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
July 2007Flash FloodFinley$15,000Nearly six inches of rain caused flash flooding. The water from a nearby creek entered three homes. Several roads were flooded and closed.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindFinley$5,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour destroyed a garage.
April 2011HailFinley$5,000no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindFinley$10no account filed
December 2001Flash FloodFinley-Heavy thunderstorm rains caused water to flow over a bridge on a county road 3 miles miles east of Finley.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindFinley-Thunderstorms in southeast Oklahoma during the morning hours on the 9th produced hail up to dime-size and damaging winds. A thunderstorm in central Oklahoma produced damaging lightning. Thunderstorm winds downed large tree limbs seven miles northwest of Antlers, uprooted trees four miles north-northeast of Finley. Lightning knocked out the police radio system and the 911 emergency line in Perry.
June 2012HailFinley-no account filed
April 2011HailFinley-no account filed
May 2009HailFinley-no account filed
March 1999HailFinley-no account filed
April 1999HailFinley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pushmataha 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
Snow6.4 miles15
Kosoma6.4 miles16
Ethel7.3 miles16
Wadena7.4 miles15
Big Rocks8.0 miles16
Eubanks8.0 miles15
Moyers8.4 miles17
Kellond8.9 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 FinleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5450565The 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 1092818. 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.