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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.

Grayson within Okmulgee County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Grayson 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.

YearPeople Change
2010159
2020127-32 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

59 since 1998

Regional 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/incendiarism25
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
7 September 2012Naturalunder an acreDeep Fork National Wildlife RefugeCOALTON STRIKE
3 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
1 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined96 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeQUILT BARN
6 August 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresDeep Fork National Wildlife RefugeDEEP FORK OFFICE
3 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use67 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeTRACTOR
29 July 2012Debris and open burning350 acresDeep Fork National Wildlife RefugeLOBLOLLY FIRE
20 July 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOkmulgee Field OfficeHITCH BALER
12 July 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreDeep Fork National Wildlife RefugeCOALTON#2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Okmulgee County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Okmulgee County

Storms near this place

5 since 2002

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2015FloodGrayson-Portions of Highway 266 were closed due to flooding.
May 2003Tornado (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 2025HailGrayson-no account filed
March 2008Thunderstorm WindGrayson-no account filed
March 2002HailGrayson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Okmulgee 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
Hoffman1.9 miles14
Dighton2.7 miles16
Coalton3.5 miles16
Gulftown3.8 miles16
Sunrise4.0 miles16
Schulter4.5 miles14
Kusa4.6 miles16
Dewar4.8 miles16

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 GraysonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q961208The 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.