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New Prue, Oklahoma

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Southeast Osage census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74060. The Survey maps it on the New Prue quadrangle.

New Prue within Osage County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

88 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of New Prue between 1999 and 2020, burning about 37,413 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 30 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/incendiarism30
Debris and open burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Natural7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Fireworks5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
21 September 1999Naturalunder an acreOsage AgencyBULLBEAR
2 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOsage AgencyCAMRY
13 September 2012Natural48 acresOsage AgencyWILD HORSE
3 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use134 acresOsage AgencyMAYDAY
19 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOsage AgencyHIGHWAY99
23 July 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOsage AgencyROCK CREEK
11 July 2012Fireworks110 acresOsage AgencyTRICKLE
9 April 2010Debris and open burning38 acresOsage AgencyPULARE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osage County

Storms near this place

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Prue in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 1997: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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 1995HailNew Prue-Severe thunderstorms in Osage County produced dime size hail at several locations in the eastern part of the county.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindNew Prue-no account filed
July 1997HailNew Prue-no account filed
January 1996Thunderstorm WindNew Prue-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindNew Prue-no account filed
October 1996HailNew Prue-no account filed
October 1996HailNew Prue-no account filed
October 1996Thunderstorm WindNew Prue-no account filed
April 1993HailNew Prue-no account filed
April 1993HailNew Prue-no account filed
April 1993HailNew Prue-no account filed
October 1993HailNew Prue-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Osage 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
Prue2.6 miles14
Osage8.2 miles14
Morgans Corner8.5 miles13
Indian Village12.4 miles14
Hominy12.9 miles14
Skiatook16.3 miles14
Avant19.7 miles14
Nichols19.7 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.

Wikidata item Q122564914The 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 1095836. 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.