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Phillips, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the East Coal census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74538. It stands on Sulphur Creek. The Survey maps it on the Coalgate quadrangle. 122 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 594 feet above sea level.

Phillips within Coal County

Population over time

2 figures

Phillips fell from 135 to 122 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
2010135
2020122-13 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Phillips between 1996 and 2018, burning about 535 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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/incendiarism5
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
22 March 2018Arson/incendiarism175 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
9 February 2006Arson/incendiarism285 acresTalihina AgencyCOAL 48 31
27 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresTalihina AgencyCOALGROUND
27 February 2006Natural4.5 acresTalihina AgencyTHORNBUSH
26 February 2006Natural7.0 acresTalihina AgencyBRADY
19 February 1996Arson/incendiarism10 acresChickasaw AgencyCOALGATE1
19 February 1996Arson/incendiarism10 acresChickasaw AgencyCOALGATE2
26 January 2006Natural40 acresTalihina AgencyAVANZIE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coal County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Phillips in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2017: 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
April 2017LightningPhillips$2,000Lightning strike caused home and tree damage at a residence on US highway 75. Time is estimated based on report and radar data.
May 2006Flash FloodPhillips-During the evening of May 9, multiple, slow-moving thunderstorms dropped 2 to 4 inches of rainfall over southeastern Coal County producing flash flooding in the region. At 700 pm CST, Coal County law enforcement officials reported that floodwaters had also covered U.S. Highway 75 in the town of Phillips.

Every storm recorded in Coal 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
Coalgate2.2 miles14
Lehigh2.5 miles17
Cottonwood3.6 miles14
Cairo7.5 miles14
Olney7.8 miles14
Centrahoma9.8 miles14
Clarita11.4 miles15
Tupelo12.8 miles14

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 PhillipsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q514980The 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 1096598. 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.