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Westport, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Cleveland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74020. The Survey maps it on the Keystone Dam quadrangle. 448 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 883 feet above sea level.

Westport within Pawnee County

Population over time

2 figures

Westport grew from 298 to 448 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
2010298
2020448+150 (+50%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

52 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Westport between 2000 and 2019, burning about 18,905 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 18 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/incendiarism18
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
2 September 2006Natural1.0 acresPawnee AgencyBRUSH PILE
3 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use134 acresOsage AgencyMAYDAY
19 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOsage AgencyHIGHWAY99
14 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresPawnee AgencyMAGGARD
23 July 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOsage AgencyROCK CREEK
11 July 2012Fireworks110 acresOsage AgencyTRICKLE
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined141 acresOsage AgencySANDCREEK
2 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,343 acresOsage AgencyWALLER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pawnee County

Storms near this place

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westport in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 1997: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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 1995Thunderstorm WindWestport1 hurt, $2,000,000An isolated severe thunderstorm moved south from Kansas into Osage County during the evening of July 8th. The storm produced 60 mph winds at Burbank, where a few large tree limbs were blown down. The storm then weakened as it moved south into Pawnee County, but a dry microburst occurred at Westport. Winds estimated at greater than 100 mph resulted in severe damage at the Westport Marina. A large boat dock, with 43 people on the dock, was lifted over 50 feet in the air. There was one minor injury to a person on the dock, and 20 boats that were tied to the dock were damaged. Damage at the Westport Marina was estimated at around $2 million. Another dry microburst occurred to the east of the main storm in Washington County. Winds gusted to 62 mph in Dewey, where a mobile home was blown off its foundation and windows were blown out of a few homes and businesses. Windows were also blown out of a van on U.S. Highway 75 just south of Dewey.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindWestport$100no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindWestport-Severe thunderstorms moved across northeast Oklahoma during the late evening of August 19th. A large tree was downed by strong thunderstorm winds at the Zink Ranch 7 miles southwest of Skiatook, and small trees and signs were downed by 65 mile an hour winds near Oologah. Signs were downed by 60 mile an hour winds in Wynona. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 73 miles an hour at the mesonet automated observing site in Foraker and to 70 miles an hour 7 miles north of Pawhuska. Nickel size hail also fell 7 miles north of Pawhuska. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 65 miles an hour along U.S. Highway 75 on the Tulsa/Washington County line 6 miles northwest of Collinsville. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 miles an hour at Westport, and dime size hail fell 5 miles west northwest of Bowring.
May 1997HailWestport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pawnee 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
Empy0.3 miles14
Baugh0.4 miles14
Mule Barn0.7 miles14
Rabornville1.0 miles14
Leander1.0 miles14
Oak Grove1.2 miles14
Curchece1.7 miles14
Rigsby2.2 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 WestportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2479547The 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 1102924. 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.