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.
Population over time
3 figuresFitzhugh 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 204 | |
| 2010 | 230 | +26 (+13%) |
| 2020 | 183 | -47 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 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 Stonewall quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Ardmore quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Ardmore quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Roff North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1990 USGS Ada quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
20 since 1996Regional 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 burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 August 2003 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Chickasaw Agency | E.HWY1 FIR |
| 1 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 12 acres | Chickasaw Agency | FALLOUT #2 |
| 8 July 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Chickasaw Agency | ROFF FIRE |
| 24 July 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Chickasaw Agency | FITZ TWINS |
| 13 July 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Chickasaw Agency | CRAWFORD FIRE |
| 13 July 2011 | Natural | 9.7 acres | Chickasaw Agency | 1610 LIGHTNING |
| 4 April 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Chickasaw Agency | DAVIDSON FIRE |
| 19 April 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 120 acres | Chickasaw Agency | ROFF #2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 11 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid Continent Glass Co Sand Pit | Silica | Producer | ||
| Roff Pit & Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Two Unnamed Sand & Shale Pits | Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Mid Continent Glass Plant & Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Three Unnamed Sand & Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
13 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fitzhugh | $2,000 | Power pole was snapped. |
| October 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fitzhugh | $2,000 | Power line downed across county road 3610. Time estimated. |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fitzhugh | $1,500 | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fitzhugh | $500 | Road sign damage reported near Chickasaw turnpike and Hwy 1. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fitzhugh | $200 | Tree limbs through a home window. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fitzhugh | - | Tree blown down on State Highway 1, near the intersection of County Road 3510. Time is radar estimated. |
| October 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fitzhugh | - | Large tree limbs downed. |
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fitzhugh | - | 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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fitzhugh | - | 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Fitzhugh | - | County Road 3499 was impassable due to high water. Several other roads were closed with water running over top of them. |
| March 1994 | Hail | Fitzhugh | - | 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 2021 | Hail | Fitzhugh | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Fitzhugh | - | 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 Fitzhugh | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3287192 | 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 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.




