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Shady Point, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Panama-Bokoshe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74956. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Panama quadrangle. 972 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 456 feet above sea level.

Shady Point within Le Flore County

On record in Shady Point

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Shady Point fell from 1,026 to 972 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
20101,026
2020972-54 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Shady Point between 1992 and 2019, burning about 5,540 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Arson/incendiarism15
Debris and open burning9
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20470
30 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined640 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,700 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryCALHOUN
13 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
30 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
16 August 2012Natural10 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20162
1 August 2006Arson/incendiarism75 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20416

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Le Flore County

Storms near this place

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shady Point in 2 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 1996Thunderstorm WindShady Point$100no account filed
March 1993Thunderstorm WindShady Point-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Le Flore 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
Panama2.7 miles14
Witteville3.0 miles16
Tahona3.6 miles14
Bedwell3.7 miles14
Coal Creek4.1 miles14
Calhoun5.0 miles16
Neff5.3 miles16
Poteau5.6 miles16

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 Shady PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1787241The 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 1097947. 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.