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Tuskahoma, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the North Pushmataha census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74574. The Survey maps it on the Clayton quadrangle. 102 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Tuskahoma within Pushmataha County

On record in Tuskahoma

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

Tuskahoma fell from 151 to 102 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
2010151
2020102-49 (-32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

847 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 847 fires within 5 miles of Tuskahoma between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,810 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 452 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/incendiarism452
Debris and open burning126
Missing data/not specified/undetermined122
Equipment and vehicle use71
Natural32
Recreation and ceremony27
Smoking10
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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 2019Arson/incendiarism10 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2019Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTalihina AgencyTENT CITY
7 September 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2019Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTalihina AgencyVILLAGE

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 Tuskahoma: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Clayton No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Pushmataha County

Storms near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tuskahoma in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 10 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash flood. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindTuskahoma-Numerous large trees were uprooted near the Choctaw Nation Council House.
December 2015FloodTuskahoma-Portions of US-271 between Tuskahoma and Albion were closed due to flooding.
December 2015FloodTuskahoma-Portions of Highway 271 were closed due to flooding.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindTuskahoma-The Oklahoma Mesonet station near Clayton measured 66 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindTuskahoma-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large trees on Highway 271 and Four Star Ranch Road.
June 2007Flash FloodTuskahoma-Heavy thunderstorm rains caused a few roads in and around Tuskahoma to flood.
April 1999HailTuskahoma-Location: on the Latimer/Pushmataha county line
July 1994HailTuskahoma-Thunderstorms in southeast Oklahoma during the evening of the 17th produced hail up to quarter-size.
April 2017HailTuskahoma-no account filed
April 2011HailTuskahoma-no account filed
March 2008HailTuskahoma-no account filed
April 2003HailTuskahoma-no account filed
February 2000HailTuskahoma-no account filed
May 2000HailTuskahoma-no account filed
April 2000HailTuskahoma-no account filed
April 1999HailTuskahoma-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
Clayton4.5 miles14
Kiamichi5.3 miles14
Sardis7.8 miles15
Nashoba Y9.3 miles15
Albion9.9 miles15
Nashoba9.9 miles16
Divide9.9 miles15
Stanley11.6 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 TuskahomaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3474847The 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 1099084. 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.