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Fox, Oklahoma

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Healdton North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73435. The Survey maps it on the Fox quadrangle. 92 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 965 feet above sea level.

Fox within Carter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

17 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Fox between 2005 and 2020, burning about 3,533 acres in total. 1 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning1
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 August 2008Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresChickasaw AgencyNAPA
8 July 2006Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresChickasaw Agency2 HOG HEAD
9 April 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution500 acresChickasaw AgencyFOX GRAHAM
8 April 2005Natural1,000 acresChickasaw AgencyCLEMSCOTT
15 April 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution87 acresChickasaw AgencyFOXBRUSH
22 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,300 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryCONVICT HILL
22 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresChickasaw AgencyFOX
22 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresChickasaw AgencySHOVELHEAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carter 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 Fox: 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 Carter County

Storms near this place

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fox in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
April 2025Thunderstorm WindFox$25,000A social media image showing metal roof decking of a building blown off. Event time is estimated from radar observations.
August 2003LightningFox$15,000Lightning damaged an oil tank battery.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindFox$5,000no account filed
May 2015Thunderstorm WindFox$3,000Trees snapped and uprooted.
May 2025HailFox-An image was shared on social media.
April 2024HailFox-Time is radar estimated.
April 2003HailFox-Hail was reported on Highway 76.
March 2024HailFox-no account filed
March 1998HailFox-no account filed
June 1998HailFox-no account filed
April 1996Tornado (F0)Fox-no account filed
April 1996HailFox-no account filed
April 1996HailFox-no account filed
November 1996HailFox-no account filed
March 1996HailFox-no account filed
April 1995Tornado (F0)Fox-no account filed
March 1994HailFox-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carter 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
Pike City (historical)0.5 miles14
Clemscott2.2 miles15
Old Scott2.8 miles15
Graham3.5 miles15
Pruitt City4.0 miles14
Ratliff City6.0 miles14
Pooleville6.2 miles16
Oil City7.3 miles15

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 FoxAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5476519The 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 1093003. 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.