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Wainwright, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Muskogee Southwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74468. The Survey maps it on the Wainwright quadrangle. 93 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 640 feet above sea level.

Wainwright within Muskogee County

Population over time

2 figures

Wainwright fell from 165 to 93 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
2010165
202093-72 (-44%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Wainwright between 2006 and 2010, burning about 11,222 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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/incendiarism2
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
15 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30336
5 November 2007Arson/incendiarism29 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeFELONY ARREST
7 January 2006Natural3,110 acresCherokee Nation TribeWAINWRIGHT 2
1 January 2006Arson/incendiarism8,080 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeWAINWRIGHT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskogee 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 Wainwright: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Muskogee County

Storms near this place

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wainwright in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 4 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
May 1999Thunderstorm WindWainwright$95,000A single family dwelling was destroyed, and two mobile homes were damaged. The roof of the local school was lifted up and thrown into a school bus.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindWainwright$30,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour destroyed a mobile home.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindWainwright$25,000Strong thunderstorm wind damaged the roofs of homes, uprooted trees, and snapped numerous large tree limbs in a broad swath from northwest of Wainwright to east of Wainwright.
January 1996Thunderstorm WindWainwright$12,000no account filed
May 2020Thunderstorm WindWainwright$10,000Strong thunderstorm wind damaged the roofs of homes, damaged a barn, and snapped large tree limbs.
October 1997Thunderstorm WindWainwright$10,000no account filed
January 1996Thunderstorm WindWainwright$5,000no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindWainwright-Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
September 2009Flash FloodWainwright-Heavy rain caused water to flow over county roads near Wainwright.
September 2009Flash FloodWainwright-Heavy rain caused county roads near Wainwright to be covered by water.
August 2007Flash FloodWainwright-Heavy rains caused numerous roads to be flooded in and around Wainwright.
July 2007Flash FloodWainwright-Heavy rain caused water to flow over secondary roads near Wainwright.
May 2013HailWainwright-no account filed
March 2009HailWainwright-no account filed
May 2009HailWainwright-no account filed
May 2008HailWainwright-no account filed
April 1997HailWainwright-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Muskogee 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
Oak-Ta-Hah (historical)3.2 miles14
Flusche4.1 miles14
Oktaha5.4 miles19
Boynton5.5 miles15
Beland5.7 miles14
Council Hill6.1 miles15
Crekola7.6 miles18
Summit8.4 miles18

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 WainwrightAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3287650The 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 1099291. 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.