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Ringold, Oklahoma

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Valliant census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74754. It stands on Long Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sobol quadrangle. It stands 459 feet above sea level.

Ringold within McCurtain County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

159 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Ringold between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,140 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 72 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/incendiarism72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Debris and open burning17
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined19 acresTalihina AgencyRUFE
6 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2002Natural1.5 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 2002Arson/incendiarism100 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry10558
11 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
1 September 2000Naturalunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCurtain County

Storms near this place

8 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ringold in 8 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
September 2016Thunderstorm WindRingold$25,000Numerous trees were blown down along with power lines. A roof was blown off a home in the Ringgold community.
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Ringold$10,000Numerous trees were uprooted and/or snapped. One barn was completely destroyed and one home had minor roof damage. The tornado was classified as an EF0 with a path width of 75 yards wide.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindRingold-Power lines were downed near Pine Creek Lake.
May 2021HailRingold-Quarter size hail fell a few miles southeast of the Ringold community.
May 2015Flash FloodRingold-Numerous roads across the southern part of the county had high water, with several roads remaining closed due to flooding.
May 2015FloodRingold-Excessive heavy rainfall during the month of May resulted in very high water in the Little River Basin which feeds the Red River flood control reservoir know as Pine Creek Lake in McCurtain County, Oklahoma. The lake remained very high throughout almost the entire month of May, 2015 and the lake set an all time pool stage record of 480.76 feet at 8 pm on May 30th, 2015.
March 2008Flash FloodRingold-Water was across Pine Creek Road.
July 2016HailRingold-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McCurtain 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
Alikchi4.7 miles17
Rufe6.4 miles17
Plainview7.0 miles17
Slim9.1 miles17
Mound Grove9.4 miles17
Wright City12.5 miles17
Felker12.6 miles17
Doaksville (historical)12.7 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 RingoldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7334960The 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 1097213. 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.