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Raiford, Oklahoma

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Hanna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74432. It stands on Wallace Creek. The Survey maps it on the Raiford quadrangle.

Raiford within McIntosh County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

117 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Raiford between 2002 and 2020, burning about 14,894 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 55 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/incendiarism55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Debris and open burning17
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural1

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
26 September 2013Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeHANNA #19
26 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOkmulgee Field OfficeHANNA # 20
26 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOkmulgee Field OfficeHANNA #18
26 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOkmulgee Field OfficeHANNA #17
26 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOkmulgee Field OfficeHANNA #16
26 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOkmulgee Field OfficeHANNA #13
26 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOkmulgee Field OfficeHANNA #6
26 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOkmulgee Field OfficeHANNA #9

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McIntosh County

Storms near this place

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Raiford in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 7 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
September 2023HailRaiford$30,000A spotter measured hail to 3.85 inches wide. The very large hail damaged homes and vehicles.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindRaiford$2,000Numerous trees were blown down across the county road between Lenna and Raiford. Numerous trees were blown down in other places countywide.
September 2023Flash FloodRaiford-Portions of several roads were flooded in and around Raiford.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindRaiford-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindRaiford-Strong thunderstorm wind uprooted trees.
September 2012Flash FloodRaiford-Portions of Highway 9 were flooded between Raiford and Dustin.
September 2012HailRaiford-no account filed
April 2004HailRaiford-no account filed
May 2003HailRaiford-no account filed
May 2001HailRaiford-no account filed
April 2000HailRaiford-no account filed
February 1999Thunderstorm WindRaiford-no account filed
May 1997HailRaiford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McIntosh 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
Vivian4.0 miles15
Mellette5.1 miles14
Carters Corner6.7 miles15
Hanna7.0 miles14
Lenna7.6 miles14
Vernon8.2 miles14
Stidham8.4 miles15
Fame9.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100772. 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.