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Kemp, Oklahoma

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the South Bryan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74747. The Survey maps it on the Kemp quadrangle. 126 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 633 feet above sea level.

Kemp within Bryan County

Population over time

3 figures

Kemp fell from 144 to 126 between 2000 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
2000144
2010133-11 (-8%)
2020126-7 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

9 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Kemp between 2005 and 2017, burning about 1,276 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use40 acresChickasaw AgencyYUBA
15 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresChickasaw AgencyRIVER
17 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceOAK RIDGE ROAD
29 April 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDELPHIA DR FIRE
6 February 2009Arson/incendiarism150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCARPENTERS BLUFF
17 February 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceDELPHIA
27 December 2005Arson/incendiarism1,000 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCHOCTAW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bryan County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Kemp: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Lattimore Sand Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bryan County

Storms near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kemp in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 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
August 2002Thunderstorm WindKemp$5,000A large tree fell on a house.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindKemp$3,000Power lines reported down. Time estimated by radar.
June 2018Flash FloodKemp-Grassy Lake Road was impassable due to flood water.
June 2015Heavy RainKemp-Heavy rain was reported between 9:30am and 11:00am.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindKemp-No damage was reported.
April 2011HailKemp-no account filed
May 2003HailKemp-no account filed
April 1994HailKemp-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bryan 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
Liberty2.4 miles7
Hendrix2.8 miles8
Achille4.7 miles8
Yarnaby5.4 miles8
Old Allison7.8 miles8
Karma7.9 miles6
Yuba8.4 miles6
Allison8.8 miles8

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 KempAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q629964The 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 1094319. 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.