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Johnson, Oklahoma

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Shawnee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74804. The Survey maps it on the Shawnee NE quadrangle. 457 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,040 feet above sea level.

Johnson within Pottawatomie County

Population over time

2 figures

Johnson grew from 247 to 457 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
2010247
2020457+210 (+85%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

27 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Johnson between 2005 and 2019, burning about 734 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism4
Fireworks1
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
18 September 2015Arson/incendiarism84 acresWewoka AgencyBOOM TOWN
1 September 2011Arson/incendiarism70 acresKickapoo Field OfficeWELLS
8 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWewoka AgencySAME SPOT
2 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKickapoo Field OfficeHEADSET
12 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKickapoo Field OfficeJOHNSON
10 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use230 acresSouthern Plains Regional OfficeMULLIN
4 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresKickapoo Field OfficeECONTUCHKA
16 July 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresWewoka AgencyMILE MARKER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawatomie 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 Johnson: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pottawatomie County

Storms near this place

13 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Johnson in 13 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 5 tornado, 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 2024Tornado (EF1)Johnson$15,000This tornado developed west of US Highway 377 near Hazel Dell Road and moved northeast crossing into Lincoln County about one mile east of US Highway 377. Damage in Pottawatomie County was primarily to trees, although at least one home along US-377 received some roof damage.
November 2024Thunderstorm WindJohnson-A large tree and a carport were damaged northeast of Johnson.
April 2023Tornado (EF1)Johnson-The eighteenth and final tornado of this outbreak developed northeast of Johnson, or from 1 mile northwest to 1 mile west of Garden Grove. This tornado moved south near and just west of Econtuchka Road dissipating just southwest of the intersection of Econtuchka Road and Wolverine Road. A home received roof damage, an outbuilding was destroyed and trees were damaged along the path.
October 2023Tornado (EF0)Johnson-An otherwise weak line of thunderstorms produced a brief tornado observed by tornado debris signature on the KTLX radar. The only damage that was observed were to branches that had previously been cut and collected on the side of the road on County Road 3490 just south of Interstate 40 were picked up and blown northeast.
September 2023HailJohnson-Images relayed via social media.
October 2021Tornado (EF0)Johnson-This tornado initially developed about 2 miles west-southwest of Johnson, likely in the North Canadian River valley as evidenced by the development of a Tornado Debris Signature on radar. The tornado moved northeast producing mainly tree damage, including a tree damaging the roof of a house along Garretts Lake Road. Much of the path of this tornado was estimated being in inaccessible areas.
May 2017Flash FloodJohnson-Water was over highway 99.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindJohnson-No damage reported.
May 2013Tornado (EF0)Johnson-A tornado began about just south of the Pottawatomie-Lincoln County line damaging some trees before moving into Lincoln County.
April 2021HailJohnson-no account filed
April 2021HailJohnson-no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindJohnson-no account filed
April 2011HailJohnson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pottawatomie 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
Econtuchka2.8 miles12
Garden Grove3.9 miles12
Aydelotte4.6 miles14
Bellemont5.5 miles12
Neal5.7 miles12
Shawnee7.0 miles15
Clarks Heights8.7 miles13
Hazel Dell8.9 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 JohnsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2703317The 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 1094244. 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.