BlockBefore

Gray Horse, Oklahoma

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fairfax census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74637. It stands on Lucy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fairfax quadrangle.

Gray Horse within Osage County

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

82 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Gray Horse between 1999 and 2020, burning about 15,139 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 9 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism9
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Natural6
Other causes4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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 September 2009Naturalunder an acreOsage AgencyBENNIE
5 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOsage AgencyBOWMAN
5 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOsage AgencyWEST MASON
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresOsage AgencyLINN
23 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresOsage AgencyHARP
10 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOsage AgencyOLD SCHOOL
9 August 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.3 acresOsage AgencyELECTRIC
4 August 2010Debris and open burning2.5 acresOsage AgencyHOLLOWAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osage 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 Gray Horse: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Ralston PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Osage County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gray Horse in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2016: 3 tornado, 2 hail. 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 2011Tornado (EF2)Gray Horse$20,000A tornado snapped or uprooted a number of large trees and snapped power poles. Maximum estimated wind in the tornado based on this damage was about 115 mph.
April 2012Tornado (EF1)Gray Horse$8,000A tornado uprooted hardwood trees, snapped large tree limbs, and downed four power poles. Maximum estimated wind in the tornado based on this damage was 85 to 95 mph.
April 2016Tornado (EF1)Gray Horse-This tornado uprooted trees and snapped large tree limbs. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 85 to 95 mph.
April 2011HailGray Horse-no account filed
June 2008HailGray Horse-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
Fairfax3.4 miles13
Osage Junction3.9 miles13
Remington7.6 miles13
Doga7.9 miles12
Little Chief8.0 miles13
Strohm8.1 miles13
Burbank11.0 miles13
Carter Nine13.5 miles13

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 Gray HorseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5598192The 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 1093342. 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.