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Quinton, Oklahoma

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Quinton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74561. The Survey maps it on the Quinton South quadrangle. 863 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 610 feet above sea level.

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Quinton within Pittsburg County

Population over time

3 figures

Quinton fell from 1,071 to 863 between 2000 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
20001,071
20101,051-20 (-2%)
2020863-188 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

281 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 281 fires within 5 miles of Quinton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 28,146 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 138 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/incendiarism138
Missing data/not specified/undetermined94
Debris and open burning26
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
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
30 September 2002Debris and open burning14 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2002Smoking3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2002Arson/incendiarism55 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2002Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2002Natural31 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use30 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
31 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use60 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20423

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pittsburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Quinton: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pittsburg County

Storms near this place

46 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quinton in 46 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 26 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 flash flood. 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 2001HailQuinton$50,000Golfball size hail damage a few car and roofs of buildings.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindQuinton$50,000Thunderstorm winds did damage in a two block by six block area. A few barns were destroyed and a few carports were blown onto cars. Several trees were blown down with a few blocking roads. The wind also caused power outages.
March 2006HailQuinton$40,000no account filed
June 1998Tornado (F1)Quinton$30,000This tornado moved from Pittsburg into Haskell County at 941 PM CDT. Two houses were heavily damaged south of Quinton.
May 2024Tornado (EF1)Quinton$25,000This is the first segment of a two-segment tornado. This tornado developed west of Quinton, to the north of Highway 31. The tornado uprooted trees, snapped large tree limbs, and damaged the roofs of homes as it moved east across town, then moved into Haskell County near Highway 31. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in this segment of the tornado was 85 to 95 mph.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindQuinton$20,000The roof of a nursing home was damaged by strong thunderstorm wind.
September 1996Flash FloodQuinton$5,000no account filed
May 1998Tornado (F0)Quinton$2,000A brief tornado touchdown in Quinton knocked power lines down. There are no known injuries with this tornado. The parent storm produced a tornado 4 miles southwest of Quinton just five minutes earlier.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindQuinton$1,000no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindQuinton$1,000no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindQuinton$100no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindQuinton-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindQuinton-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindQuinton-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindQuinton-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several trees and large tree limbs.
July 2010Flash FloodQuinton-Basome Road southwest of Quinton was impassable due to high water over the roadway.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindQuinton-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour blew down numerous large trees.
February 1999Thunderstorm WindQuinton-Several tree limbs were blown down by 60 mph winds.
May 1998Tornado (F0)Quinton-Emergency management director reported a tornado 4 miles southwest of Quinton. No known damage or injuries.
August 2012HailQuinton-no account filed
April 2009HailQuinton-no account filed
February 2009HailQuinton-no account filed
October 2009HailQuinton-no account filed
April 2008HailQuinton-no account filed
April 2008HailQuinton-no account filed
April 2008HailQuinton-no account filed
March 2008HailQuinton-no account filed
May 2008HailQuinton-no account filed
March 2006HailQuinton-no account filed
March 2006HailQuinton-no account filed
April 2005HailQuinton-no account filed
April 2003HailQuinton-no account filed
January 2002HailQuinton-no account filed
May 2002HailQuinton-no account filed
April 2000HailQuinton-no account filed
June 1999HailQuinton-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindQuinton-no account filed
May 1998HailQuinton-no account filed
March 1998HailQuinton-no account filed
November 1997HailQuinton-no account filed
April 1996HailQuinton-no account filed
April 1996HailQuinton-no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindQuinton-no account filed
April 1995HailQuinton-no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindQuinton-no account filed
October 1993HailQuinton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pittsburg 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
Russellville3.9 miles14
Featherston7.0 miles15
Highway 9 Landing10.3 miles14
Carlton Landing10.8 miles13
Blocker11.3 miles17
Longtown11.3 miles13
Canadian Fork11.7 miles13
Bristow Point12.8 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 QuintonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3287488The 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 1096996. 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.