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Welling, Oklahoma

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the East Cherokee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74471. It lies near Minning Camp Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Tahlequah quadrangle. 781 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 741 feet above sea level.

Welling within Cherokee County

Population over time

2 figures

Welling grew from 771 to 781 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
2010771
2020781+10 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

464 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 464 fires within 5 miles of Welling between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,528 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 192 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/incendiarism192
Missing data/not specified/undetermined106
Debris and open burning97
Equipment and vehicle use21
Natural17
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1

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 2005Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30547
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30467
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2002Natural1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2000Smokingunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2000Smokingunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Welling: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Clay. 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
Charley Ryals Chert PitSilicaPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Welling in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2008: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
July 1996Thunderstorm WindWelling$100no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindWelling-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs and blew a satellite dish off of a house.
May 2008HailWelling-no account filed
March 2000Thunderstorm WindWelling-no account filed
September 1999HailWelling-no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindWelling-no account filed

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
Tsa La Gi Indian Village3.1 miles18
Park Hill3.3 miles18
Indian Meadows3.4 miles18
Briggs3.7 miles18
Etta3.7 miles18
Tailholt4.2 miles18
Tahlequah4.5 miles19
Green Country Estates4.7 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 WellingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q517131The 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 1099478. 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.