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Texola, Oklahoma

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Erick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73668. The Survey maps it on the Texola quadrangle. 43 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,146 feet above sea level.

Texola within Beckham County

On record in Texola

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

Population over time

2 figures

Texola grew from 36 to 43 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
201036
202043+7 (+19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

7 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Texola between 2005 and 2011, burning about 1,580 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1

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
9 September 2009Natural4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCARBON BLACK RD GRASS FIRE
10 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceI 40 & CO RD 29
10 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use350 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEMMERT FIRE
14 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,000 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 February 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSTATE LINE ROAD
27 December 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 January 2006Equipment and vehicle use50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Beckham County

Storms near this place

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Texola in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 2019: 12 hail, 3 tornado, 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
May 2019Thunderstorm WindTexola$10,000Semi overturned at mile marker 3 on I-40.
May 1995HailTexola$5,000no account filed
May 2019Tornado (EFU)Texola-Television storm chasers and emergency management spotters observed a tornado to the south of Texola moving northeast. No damage was reported and the path of the tornado was estimated based on spotter reports and radar.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindTexola-No damage reported.
April 2015HailTexola-No damage reports.
May 2002Tornado (F0)Texola-Two storm chasers observed this tornado as it formed just east of the Texas/Oklahoma state line, north of Texola. No damage was observed or reported.
April 2019HailTexola-no account filed
April 2019HailTexola-no account filed
July 2016HailTexola-no account filed
May 2015HailTexola-no account filed
April 2004HailTexola-no account filed
May 2001HailTexola-no account filed
April 1999HailTexola-no account filed
May 1999HailTexola-no account filed
May 1995Tornado (F0)Texola-no account filed
May 1995HailTexola-no account filed
March 1993HailTexola-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beckham 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
Erick6.6 miles9
Mayfield10.2 miles9
Hext12.8 miles9
Prentiss14.0 miles9
Sweetwater14.6 miles9
Delhi17.0 miles9
New Liberty17.6 miles9
Sayre19.3 miles9

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 TexolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3287635The 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 1098827. 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.