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Olney, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the West Coal census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74538. It stands on Elm Creek. The Survey maps it on the Olney quadrangle. It stands 617 feet above sea level.

Olney within Coal County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Olney between 1996 and 2020, burning about 290 acres in total. 2 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
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
15 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTalihina AgencyCLARITA
1 March 1996Arson/incendiarism40 acresChickasaw AgencyWARDSCHURC
8 February 2006Naturalunder an acreTalihina AgencyMCKENZIE
25 November 2017Arson/incendiarism200 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
20 November 2020Debris and open burning39 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
25 January 2006Natural10 acresTalihina AgencyCOON CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coal 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 Olney: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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 Shale PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Coal County

Storms near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olney in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 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
February 2009Thunderstorm WindOlney$85,000The Coal County Emergency Manager reported four large barns destroyed and several outbuildings destroyed, including a dog kennel and home. An unanchored mobile home was moved off its fame and its windows were broken. Monetary damages were estimated.
October 2016Thunderstorm WindOlney$10,000Coal county emergency management reported numerous large trees down between Clarita and Olney. Reported a tree down on a house and several car ports. Also several power poles down along state highway 31b.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindOlney$3,000A 25-foot tall, one-foot diameter hickory tree was blown over. Monetary damages were estimated.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindOlney$2,000Winds caused some roof damage.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindOlney$10Large tree limbs were downed.
April 2020Tornado (EF0)Olney-Two independent storm chasers provided video of a tornado that was observed southwest of Lehigh from a storm that followed behind the storm that had produced the tornado near Bromide and Wapanucka. No damage is known to have occurred and the location of the tornado is estimated based on these videos and radar data.
June 2007Flash FloodOlney-County Line Road closed due to water flowing over the bridge.
May 2006Tornado (F0)Olney-A brief, narrow tornado was viewed by several people touching down near Lehigh in an open field. No damage was reported.
April 2002Flash FloodOlney-Roebuck Road was closed due to high water.
May 2020HailOlney-no account filed
June 2011HailOlney-no account filed
May 2003HailOlney-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindOlney-no account filed
April 1994HailOlney-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coal 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
Clarita3.9 miles15
Lehigh7.7 miles17
Phillips7.8 miles14
Coalgate8.8 miles14
Centrahoma9.5 miles14
Tupelo9.7 miles14
Cottonwood10.1 miles14
East Jesse11.0 miles11

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 OlneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22074859The 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 1096264. 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.