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Tussy, Oklahoma

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Healdton North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73488. It stands on Sandy Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pernell quadrangle. It stands 988 feet above sea level.

Tussy within Carter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

13 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Tussy between 2006 and 2010, burning about 47,492 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

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
27 July 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChickasaw AgencySANNER RANCH
26 July 2006Power generation/transmission/distribution3.5 acresChickasaw AgencyWILDPRATT
22 July 2006Power generation/transmission/distribution3.6 acresChickasaw AgencyCHRISTIAN
9 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined23,824 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryRATLIFF CITY/TATUMS
9 March 2008Arson/incendiarism3.1 acresChickasaw AgencyLAWN DRUNK
5 March 2008Power generation/transmission/distribution15 acresChickasaw AgencyPERKINS FARM
30 March 2010Naturalunder an acreChickasaw AgencyPENNINGTON
1 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined425 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryCLAUD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carter County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tussy in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 hail. 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
June 1997HailTussy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carter 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
Ratliff City4.4 miles14
Tatums4.6 miles16
Pruitt City6.2 miles14
Alpers8.3 miles16
Pooleville9.7 miles16
Pike City (historical)9.8 miles14
Fox10.2 miles15
Old Scott11.5 miles15

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 TussyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7856838The 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 1100900. 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.