Grayson, Oklahoma
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Henryetta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74437. The Survey maps it on the Morris quadrangle. 127 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 656 feet above sea level.
On record in Grayson
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Grayson Jaillisted 2024
Population over time
2 figuresGrayson fell from 159 to 127 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 159 | |
| 2020 | 127 | -32 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1896 USGS Okmulgee quadrangle1:125000
- 1900 USGS Okmulgee quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Morris quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Muskogee quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
59 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Grayson between 1998 and 2020, burning about 12,148 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 25 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 25 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Deep Fork National Wildlife Refuge | COALTON STRIKE |
| 3 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 1 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 96 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | QUILT BARN |
| 6 August 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Deep Fork National Wildlife Refuge | DEEP FORK OFFICE |
| 3 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 67 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | TRACTOR |
| 29 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | 350 acres | Deep Fork National Wildlife Refuge | LOBLOLLY FIRE |
| 20 July 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Okmulgee Field Office | HITCH BALER |
| 12 July 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Deep Fork National Wildlife Refuge | COALTON#2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Grayson: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Sandstone Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Shale Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Shale Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grayson in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2015 | Flood | Grayson | - | Portions of Highway 266 were closed due to flooding. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Grayson | - | A F0 tornado touched down 3 miles northeast of Grayson and traveled one mile producing tree damage before lifting just inside the McIntosh county border. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Grayson | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grayson | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Grayson | - | 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 Grayson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q961208 | 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 1093350. 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.







