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.
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
- Dog Creek Schoollisted 1988
- Shady Point Schoollisted 1988
Population over time
2 figuresShady 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,026 | |
| 2020 | 972 | -54 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1900 USGS Sallisaw quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1911 USGS Sallisaw quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Panama quadrangle1:24000
- 1977 USGS Panama quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
73 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 28 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20470 |
| 30 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 640 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,700 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | CALHOUN |
| 13 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 16 August 2012 | Natural | 10 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20162 |
| 1 August 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 75 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20416 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shady Point | $100 | no account filed |
| March 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shady Point | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Panama | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Witteville | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Tahona | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Bedwell | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Coal Creek | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Calhoun | 5.0 miles | 16 | |
| Neff | 5.3 miles | 16 | |
| Poteau | 5.6 miles | 16 |
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 Point | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1787241 | The 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.








