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Olustee, Oklahoma

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the West Jackson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73560. It stands on Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Olustee quadrangle. 468 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,332 feet above sea level.

Olustee within Jackson County

On record in Olustee

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Olustee fell from 607 to 468 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
2010607
2020468-139 (-23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 9 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.

Photographs

2 photographs, 1938

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Vacant farmhouse in area of mechanization and drought near Olustee, Oklahoma
Vacant farmhouse in area of mechanization and drought near Olustee, Oklahoma
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1938. Library of Congress
Vacant farmhouse in area of mechanization and drought near Olustee, Oklahoma
Vacant farmhouse in area of mechanization and drought near Olustee, Oklahoma
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1938. Library of Congress

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 Olustee: 3 past producers. 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 Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olustee in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 21 hail, 9 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindOlustee$40,000A barn was destroyed. Monetary damages were estimated.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindOlustee$17,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindOlustee$5,000Grain bin blown was over at D street and W 5th.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindOlustee$3,000Numerous tree limbs were blown down. Monetary damages were estimated.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindOlustee$150Tree limbs, 3-4 inches in diameter, were downed.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindOlustee$10no account filed
May 2024HailOlustee-MPing report.
May 2024HailOlustee-MPing report.
May 2024HailOlustee-MPing report.
April 2019HailOlustee-Twitter report with picture. Time estimated by radar.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindOlustee-Measured by a personal weather station.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindOlustee-Measured by a personal weather station.
June 2010HailOlustee-Up to golf ball-size hail was reported for several minutes.
April 2005HailOlustee-Hail was observed on the west side of town.
June 2004Flash FloodOlustee-Flash flooding occurred during the evening of June 28 as rainfall totals up to 4 inches over Jackson County in southwestern Oklahoma. OK State Highway 6 was covered by floodwaters and mud at 8:30 pm CDT on June 28 at two locations on the highway about 1 mile north of Olustee, OK.
April 2024HailOlustee-no account filed
April 2023HailOlustee-no account filed
May 2019HailOlustee-no account filed
May 2017HailOlustee-no account filed
May 2017HailOlustee-no account filed
April 2016HailOlustee-no account filed
April 2014HailOlustee-no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindOlustee-no account filed
May 2008HailOlustee-no account filed
June 2008HailOlustee-no account filed
June 2008HailOlustee-no account filed
June 2008HailOlustee-no account filed
April 2006HailOlustee-no account filed
May 2002HailOlustee-no account filed
April 1994HailOlustee-no account filed
October 1994HailOlustee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Marty4.7 miles8
Elmer6.0 miles10
Creata6.9 miles8
Creta7.1 miles8
Prairie Hill7.2 miles8
Victory7.2 miles9
Altus7.7 miles9
Welon8.2 miles9

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 OlusteeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2133064The 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 1096265. 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.

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.