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Grainola, Oklahoma

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Northwest Osage census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74652. It stands on Antelope Creek. The Survey maps it on the Grainola quadrangle. 31 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,201 feet above sea level.

Grainola within Osage County

Population over time

2 figures

Grainola grew from 31 to 31 between 2010 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
201031
2020310 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Grainola between 2006 and 2020, burning about 834 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
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
8 March 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreKickapoo Field OfficeLITTLEHEAD
7 March 2020Debris and open burning553 acresOsage AgencyBURGER
8 December 2016Naturalunder an acreOsage AgencyBLEDSOE
30 November 2008Debris and open burning155 acresOsage AgencyC.P.B.C.J.C.L.D.S.
29 January 2006Arson/incendiarism10 acresOsage AgencyBFE 1
28 January 2017Arson/incendiarism115 acresOsage AgencyFINN
11 January 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreWewoka AgencyTHE DOT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osage County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Grainola: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Osage County

Storms near this place

35 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grainola in 35 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 17 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 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
May 1993Thunderstorm WindGrainola$5,000Severe thunderstorms developed in north-central Oklahoma during the morning hours on the 8th and moved northeast. Strong thunderstorm winds in Ponca City flattened a downtown building, knocked down the wall of another building and injured three people. The winds also downed trees and power poles, damaged numerous roofs and blew out many windows. In Ponca City, the wind speed was measured at 74 mph and damage was estimated at $1,000,000. Strong thunderstorm winds in Perry downed power lines and trees, damaged or destroyed several roofs, a few mobile homes and several sheds, blew over ten monuments at a cemetery and blew out many windows. Thunderstorm winds overturned a tractor-semitrailer and rolled a mobile home over four miles west of Perry, knocked down numerous trees and power poles just south of Garber and downed trees and destroyed a shed five miles west of Grainola.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindGrainola$2,000Thunderstorm winds blew shingles off a roof.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindGrainola$1,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindGrainola$100Large tree limbs blown down
May 1997Thunderstorm WindGrainola$100no account filed
April 2024Tornado (EFU)Grainola-This brief tornado was observed and reported by storm chasers. The area where it likely occurred was surveyed by NWS Tulsa meteorologists, but it occurred over open country where no damage indicators could be found. Since no damage could be assessed, the tornado was rated EF-unknown.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindGrainola-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindGrainola-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees.
April 2012Flash FloodGrainola-Several county roads were flooded near and west of Grainola.
February 2012Thunderstorm WindGrainola-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
February 2012HailGrainola-Dime size hail covered the ground.
February 2011Tornado (EF0)Grainola-A KOTV meteorologist witnessed a tornado from the station's helicopter during a live broadcast. The tornado remained over open country and thus resulted in no damage. The tornado continued into Cowley County Kansas.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindGrainola-Thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph were estimated west of Grainola.
June 2011Tornado (EF0)Grainola-Storm chasers witnessed a brief tornado over open country. The tornado resulted in no known damage.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindGrainola-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated to 60 mph blew down a tree onto a road. Large tree limbs were also blown down.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindGrainola-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindGrainola-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindGrainola-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
May 1997HailGrainola-A severe thunderstorm produced dime to nickel size hail and strong winds which downed trees and phone lines 1 mile west of Grainola.
July 1994HailGrainola-Severe thunderstorms developed in Osage County of northeast Oklahoma during the late afternoon and early evening of July 20th. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 to 70 mph at Pawhuska and Pershing, and quarter-size hail fell near Tallant. Nickel to quarter-size hail fell at Tallant, and dime-size hail fell at Pawhuska, 5 miles north of Pawhuska, and 5 miles west of Grainola.
February 2011HailGrainola-no account filed
May 2010HailGrainola-no account filed
March 2009HailGrainola-no account filed
April 2009HailGrainola-no account filed
May 2009HailGrainola-no account filed
April 2006HailGrainola-no account filed
May 2005HailGrainola-no account filed
April 2004HailGrainola-no account filed
May 2003HailGrainola-no account filed
May 2002HailGrainola-no account filed
May 1998HailGrainola-no account filed
June 1998HailGrainola-no account filed
March 1996HailGrainola-no account filed
July 1995HailGrainola-no account filed
May 1993Thunderstorm WindGrainola-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Osage 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
Frankfort3.1 miles12
Foraker6.4 miles11
Lyman8.3 miles12
Webb City9.5 miles12
Cooper10.2 miles14
Shidler10.7 miles12
Lep10.9 miles12
Blackland11.2 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 GrainolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2262666The 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 1093295. 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.