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Fitzhugh, Oklahoma

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Southwest Pontotoc census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74843. It lies near Chimney Hill. The Survey maps it on the Roff North quadrangle. 183 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,250 feet above sea level.

Fitzhugh within Pontotoc County

Population over time

3 figures

Fitzhugh fell from 204 to 183 between 2000 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
2000204
2010230+26 (+13%)
2020183-47 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Fitzhugh between 1996 and 2014, burning about 966 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Arson/incendiarism1
Firearms and explosives use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
2 August 2003Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresChickasaw AgencyE.HWY1 FIR
1 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use12 acresChickasaw AgencyFALLOUT #2
8 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreChickasaw AgencyROFF FIRE
24 July 2008Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresChickasaw AgencyFITZ TWINS
13 July 2011Naturalunder an acreChickasaw AgencyCRAWFORD FIRE
13 July 2011Natural9.7 acresChickasaw Agency1610 LIGHTNING
4 April 2014Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresChickasaw AgencyDAVIDSON FIRE
19 April 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined120 acresChickasaw AgencyROFF #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pontotoc County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Fitzhugh: 8 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, 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
Mid Continent Glass Co Sand PitSilicaProducer
Roff Pit & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Two Unnamed Sand & Shale PitsClay, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mid Continent Glass Plant & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Three Unnamed Sand & Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pontotoc County

Storms near this place

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fitzhugh in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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
June 2019Thunderstorm WindFitzhugh$2,000Power pole was snapped.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindFitzhugh$2,000Power line downed across county road 3610. Time estimated.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindFitzhugh$1,500no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindFitzhugh$500Road sign damage reported near Chickasaw turnpike and Hwy 1.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindFitzhugh$200Tree limbs through a home window.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindFitzhugh-Tree blown down on State Highway 1, near the intersection of County Road 3510. Time is radar estimated.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindFitzhugh-Large tree limbs downed.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindFitzhugh-One home, two barns, and three smaller outbuildings were destroyed. An 8 x 40 foot single wide trailer was turned over. Three more barns sustained damaged. The Pontotoc County Agri-Plex was sustained damage, as well as an airport hangar at the Ada Airport. Numerous large trees were downed or severely damaged. The airport measured a 65 mph gust, a 71 mph gust was measured the Agri-plex, and a mesonet station 2 miles north-northeast of Ada measured a 64 mph gust. Monetary damages were not available. ||The majority of this damage was noted from six miles west-southwest of Latta to 3 miles west of Latta and on the north side of Ada. An NWS storm survey conducted indicated that a small tornado may have occurred west-southwest of Latta, but the evidence was inconclusive with the majority of damage occurring from severe thunderstorm winds estimated around 90 to 95 mph.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindFitzhugh-The peak wind gust was measured near the intersection of Highway 1 and the Chickasaw Turnpike. A tractor-trailer was blown over near this location. The driver was not seriously injured. Monetary damage estimates were not available.
June 2007Flash FloodFitzhugh-County Road 3499 was impassable due to high water. Several other roads were closed with water running over top of them.
March 1994HailFitzhugh-Thunderstorms developed in southern Oklahoma during the early afternoon hours on the 8th and produced hail up to nickel-size and wind gusts up to 65 mph. A thunderstorm wind gust to 65 mph blew down a three-inch diameter tree and turned a satellite dish out of position two miles north of Cyril.
April 2021HailFitzhugh-no account filed
June 1996HailFitzhugh-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pontotoc 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
Lawrence2.6 miles12
Roff4.4 miles13
Latta6.7 miles12
Pickett8.0 miles12
Dolberg (historical)8.1 miles12
Franks8.1 miles12
Fittstown8.2 miles12
Hart8.2 miles12

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 FitzhughAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3287192The 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 1092853. 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.