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Teresita, Oklahoma

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the North Cherokee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74364. It stands on Double Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Moodys quadrangle. 188 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Teresita within Cherokee County

Population over time

2 figures

Teresita grew from 159 to 188 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
2010159
2020188+29 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

478 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 478 fires within 5 miles of Teresita between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,009 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 191 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/incendiarism191
Missing data/not specified/undetermined138
Debris and open burning74
Recreation and ceremony22
Natural16
Equipment and vehicle use15
Smoking10
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Railroad operations and maintenance4

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 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2017Arson/incendiarism20 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2000Debris and open burning14 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 2000Smoking3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Teresita in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
May 2019Thunderstorm WindTeresita-Strong thunderstorm wind, likely associated with the rear flank downdraft of the tornadic Peggs/Leach supercell, uprooted trees toward an easterly direction south of the tornado.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindTeresita-Strong thunderstorm wind, likely associated with the rear flank downdraft of the tornadic Peggs/Leach supercell, uprooted trees toward an easterly direction south of the tornado.
October 2019Tornado (EF1)Teresita-This tornado uprooted trees and snapped numerous large tree limbs. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 85 to 95 mph.
October 2009Flash FloodTeresita-Numerous roads were flooded in and around Tahlequah as well as in the northern and eastern portions of the county. Several water rescues were conducted as motorists became stranded in flood waters.

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
Liberty2.5 miles18
Lowrey3.8 miles18
Moodys5.7 miles18
Peggs6.0 miles15
Gideon7.2 miles15
Ellerville7.2 miles18
Scraper7.7 miles18
Lost City11.3 miles20

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 TeresitaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5670516The 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 1100881. 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.