BlockPershing, Oklahoma
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Pawhuska census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74056. The Survey maps it on the Wynona quadrangle. 42 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 899 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1909 USGS Pawhuska quadrangle1:125000
- 1910 USGS Pawhuska quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Enid quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Enid quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Wynona quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Pawhuska quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
167 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Pershing between 1999 and 2020, burning about 36,050 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 44 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 58 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 44 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Osage Agency | COSHEHE |
| 7 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Osage Agency | ST. JOHN |
| 22 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Osage Agency | SQUIRREL |
| 22 September 2002 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 15 acres | Osage Agency | WOODSWF |
| 20 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 34 acres | Osage Agency | BARREL |
| 15 September 2014 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.6 acres | Osage Agency | NORA |
| 8 August 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 14 acres | Osage Agency | CONTINENTAL |
| 7 August 2006 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3.0 acres | Osage Agency | MEYER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pershing in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pershing | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured to 70 mph. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pershing | - | Strong thunderstorm wind estimated to around 60 mph blew down large tree limbs near Pershing. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pershing | - | Severe thunderstorms developed in Osage County of northeast Oklahoma during the late afternoon and early evening of July 20th. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 to 70 mph at Pawhuska and Pershing, and quarter-size hail fell near Tallant. Nickel to quarter-size hail fell at Tallant, and dime-size hail fell at Pawhuska, 5 miles north of Pawhuska, and 5 miles west of Grainola. |
| December 1999 | Hail | Pershing | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Pershing | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q108365114 | The 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 1096561. 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.