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Hitchita, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Hitchita-Pierce census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74438. It stands on Putty Creek. The Survey maps it on the Morris quadrangle. 60 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 650 feet above sea level.

Hitchita within McIntosh County

Population over time

2 figures

Hitchita fell from 88 to 60 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
201088
202060-28 (-32%)

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

20 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Hitchita between 2005 and 2016, burning about 4,527 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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/incendiarism10
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
3 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use67 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeTRACTOR
20 July 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOkmulgee Field OfficeHITCH BALER
1 April 2010Arson/incendiarism19 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeHITCH STOP
9 March 2005Smoking5.0 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeCOUNC HILL
4 March 2010Arson/incendiarism23 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeLESSON
31 March 2010Debris and open burning8.4 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeHITCH CHURCH
31 March 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution118 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeHITCH POWER
2 March 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOkmulgee Field OfficeCORNER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McIntosh County

Storms near this place

30 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hitchita in 30 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 18 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
June 2023Thunderstorm WindHitchita$111,000Thunderstorm wind resulted in at least $111,000 in debris removal and damage to the utility infrastructure across the county during this severe thunderstorm.
May 2003Tornado (F0)Hitchita$20,000The F0 tornado that touched down northeast of Grayson in Okmulgee county traveled northeast into McIntosh county and lifted 3.8 miles west northwest of Hitchita. The tornado occurred in a rural area and produced tree damage and destroyed a barn.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindHitchita-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
September 2009Flash FloodHitchita-A highway just southwest of Hitchita was flooded due to heavy rain.
August 2007Flash FloodHitchita-Heavy rains caused rural roads near Hitchita to be flooded. Street flooding was also reported in the city of Hitchita.
July 2007Flash FloodHitchita-Heavy rain caused water to flow over secondary roads.
May 1998Flash FloodHitchita-US Hwy 266 was under water 2 miles east of Hitchita near Gaines Creek.
March 2014HailHitchita-no account filed
August 2011HailHitchita-no account filed
January 2008HailHitchita-no account filed
April 2008HailHitchita-no account filed
May 2008HailHitchita-no account filed
March 2006HailHitchita-no account filed
April 2005HailHitchita-no account filed
May 2003HailHitchita-no account filed
May 2001HailHitchita-no account filed
September 1999Thunderstorm WindHitchita-no account filed
June 1999HailHitchita-no account filed
June 1998HailHitchita-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindHitchita-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindHitchita-no account filed
January 1996HailHitchita-no account filed
April 1996HailHitchita-no account filed
March 1996HailHitchita-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindHitchita-no account filed
February 1995HailHitchita-no account filed
April 1995HailHitchita-no account filed
April 1995HailHitchita-no account filed
April 1995HailHitchita-no account filed
September 1993Thunderstorm WindHitchita-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McIntosh 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
Richardsville4.7 miles16
Pierce6.2 miles16
Brush Hill9.5 miles16
Lenna9.9 miles14
Stidham10.8 miles15
Fame12.2 miles15
Checotah12.6 miles15
Onapa13.1 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 HitchitaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2063714The 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 1093800. 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.

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.