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Orion, Oklahoma

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Fairview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73838. The Survey maps it on the Orion quadrangle.

Orion within Major County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orion in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 6 hail. 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
May 2013HailOrion-Several reports of tennis ball to tea cup size hail in this area between 5:30-5:40pm LST.
January 2020HailOrion-no account filed
March 2006HailOrion-no account filed
April 2004HailOrion-no account filed
April 2004HailOrion-no account filed
October 1998HailOrion-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Major 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
Bado1.9 miles8
Phroso4.9 miles8
Chester7.5 miles8
Dane8.4 miles8
Cedar Springs10.4 miles8
Cheyenne Valley12.3 miles9
Togo14.0 miles8
Bouse Junction15.3 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100706. 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.

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.