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Page, Oklahoma

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Heavener census division. It lies in ZIP code area 71953. The Survey maps it on the Page quadrangle. It stands 922 feet above sea level.

Page within Le Flore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Page between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,153 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 47 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/incendiarism47
Railroad operations and maintenance39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Natural16
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresOuachita National Forestnot named
14 September 2002Natural1.5 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2011Natural2.0 acresOuachita National ForestPINEAPPLE
5 August 2010Natural1.0 acresOuachita National ForestROD CAMP
4 August 2006Natural5.0 acresOuachita National ForestDREAD IT
31 August 2006Natural1.0 acresOuachita National ForestGOLD FISH
28 August 2001Natural1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
26 August 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOuachita National ForestFALNES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Le Flore County

Storms near this place

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Page in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2006: 10 hail, 3 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
January 2000Thunderstorm WindPage$500Several large tree limbs blown down by thunderstorm winds.
October 1999Thunderstorm WindPage$100Tree limbs were blown down, and lawn furniture was blown around.
November 1996Thunderstorm WindPage$100no account filed
June 1997HailPage-A severe thunderstorm produced tennis ball size hail 2 miles southeast of Page, hail up to 2 inches in diameter at Page, and dime size hail near Page.
April 1995HailPage-Severe thunderstorms developed in southeast Oklahoma during the afternoon of April 30th. Strong thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs 2 miles northwest of Page. Baseball size hail fell 1 mile northeast of Talihina, and golfball size hail broke out a windshield 2 miles northwest of Bengal. Golfball size hail also fell at Muse and at Robbers Cave State Park 4 miles northwest of Wilburton, and half dollar size hail fell at Le Flore. Dime to nickel size hail fell at several other locations in southeast Oklahoma.
July 1994HailPage-Isolated severe thunderstorms developed in Le Flore County of southeast Oklahoma during the late afternoon of July 16th. Strong thunderstorm winds downed large tree limbs in Summerfield, and dime-size hail also fell in Summerfield. Nickel-size hail fell 2 miles south of Page.
April 2006HailPage-no account filed
March 1999HailPage-no account filed
October 1999HailPage-no account filed
June 1997HailPage-no account filed
June 1997HailPage-no account filed
April 1996HailPage-no account filed
November 1994HailPage-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Le Flore 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
Haw Creek4.8 miles18
Stapp5.0 miles18
Fogel5.0 miles22
Zoe5.7 miles17
Big Cedar6.9 miles18
Hontubby9.7 miles18
Hodgens Station9.9 miles17
Hodgen10.0 miles17

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 PageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7124207The 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 1100715. 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.