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Pettit, Oklahoma

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the South Cherokee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74451. It stands on Pettit Creek. The Survey maps it on the Park Hill quadrangle. 829 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 686 feet above sea level.

Pettit within Cherokee County

Population over time

2 figures

Pettit fell from 954 to 829 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
2010954
2020829-125 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

509 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 509 fires within 5 miles of Pettit between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14,228 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 247 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/incendiarism247
Missing data/not specified/undetermined125
Debris and open burning79
Natural16
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking10
Recreation and ceremony6
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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
9 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2013Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2000Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2000Misuse of fire by a minor18 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2000Debris and open burning24 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Pettit: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitsClayProducer

Every working recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pettit in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2020Tornado (EF1)Pettit$50,000This tornado damaged the roof of a permanent home and the roofs of two mobile homes, uprooted a number of trees, and damaged outbuildings. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 90 to 100 mph.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindPettit$500no account filed
April 1999Thunderstorm WindPettit$200Trees were blown down.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindPettit-Thunderstom winds estimated at 70 miles an blew trees down.
June 1998HailPettit-Location: Tenkiller Harbor
May 2022HailPettit-no account filed
May 2002HailPettit-no account filed
October 1993HailPettit-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
Pettit Bay1.4 miles18
Keys2.3 miles18
Wildcat Point2.5 miles18
Carters Landing4.0 miles18
White Oak4.3 miles19
Cookson4.4 miles19
Caney Ridge4.5 miles18
Qualls4.7 miles19

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 PettitAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q936977The 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 1100734. 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.