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Snow, Oklahoma

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Finley-Rattan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74543. It stands on Snow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Snow quadrangle. It stands 545 feet above sea level.

Snow within Pushmataha County

On record in Snow

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Snow between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,844 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 56 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/undetermined59
Arson/incendiarism56
Debris and open burning34
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural9
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10543
8 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry10534
7 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry10549
27 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry10363
27 September 2003Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10410
25 September 2001Natural1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pushmataha 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 Snow: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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 Shale PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pushmataha County

Storms near this place

13 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Snow in 13 storm reports between 2001 and 2015: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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
April 2005Thunderstorm WindSnow$25,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew some siding off a house. A tree blown down by the wind fell onto the house.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindSnow$15,000Trees were damaged by strong thunderstorm winds. One tree was blown down onto a mobile home.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindSnow-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several trees.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindSnow-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees between Snow and Finley.
May 2008Tornado (EF1)Snow-An NWS storm survey determined that a tornado snapped or uprooted numerous trees north of town.
July 2007Flash FloodSnow-Heavy rain caused water to flow over several county roads near Snow.
June 2001Flash FloodSnow-Heavy thunderstorm rains caused streams to overflow their banks around Snow.
April 2015HailSnow-no account filed
April 2014HailSnow-no account filed
April 2011HailSnow-no account filed
May 2008HailSnow-no account filed
April 2007HailSnow-no account filed
April 2005HailSnow-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pushmataha 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
Finley6.4 miles15
Divide7.8 miles15
Dunbar9.0 miles15
Nashoba Y9.2 miles15
Eubanks9.3 miles15
Cloudy9.5 miles15
Wadena9.8 miles15
Stanley10.4 miles14

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 SnowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7548129The 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 1100836. 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.