Onapa, Oklahoma

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.

• 1900 USGS Canadian quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
• 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Checotah quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
• 1978 USGS Eufaula quadrangle1:100000
• 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Onapa between 2000 and 2012, burning about 1,388 acres in total. None 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Brush Hill
• Checotah
• Fame
• Texanna

Every fire recorded in McIntosh County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Onapa: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in McIntosh County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Onapa in 22 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 11 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flood. The reports record 2 deaths. 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.

Every storm recorded in McIntosh County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1096271. 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.