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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1901 USGS Alikchi quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1950 USGS Mcalester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Finley quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Antlers quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
188 since 1992Regional 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/incendiarism | 61 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 |
| Debris and open burning | 44 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Talihina Agency | 0433 |
| 29 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 10265 |
| 27 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 17 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Finley | $15,000 | Nearly six inches of rain caused flash flooding. The water from a nearby creek entered three homes. Several roads were flooded and closed. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Finley | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour destroyed a garage. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Finley | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Finley | $10 | no account filed |
| December 2001 | Flash Flood | Finley | - | Heavy thunderstorm rains caused water to flow over a bridge on a county road 3 miles miles east of Finley. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Finley | - | 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 2012 | Hail | Finley | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Finley | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Finley | - | no account filed |
| March 1999 | Hail | Finley | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Finley | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Finley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5450565 | The 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.







