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Whitesboro, Oklahoma

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Talihina census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74577. It stands on Deadman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Whitesboro quadrangle. 172 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 689 feet above sea level.

Whitesboro within Le Flore County

Population over time

2 figures

Whitesboro fell from 250 to 172 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
2010250
2020172-78 (-31%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

387 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 387 fires within 5 miles of Whitesboro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,444 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 163 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/incendiarism163
Missing data/not specified/undetermined125
Debris and open burning47
Equipment and vehicle use24
Natural13
Smoking5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony3
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
5 September 1998Fireworks500 acresOuachita National ForestFRAZIER CREEK
30 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry20485
30 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry20486
30 September 2004Arson/incendiarism131 acresOuachita National ForestHORSE HEAVEN
30 September 2004Arson/incendiarism40 acresOuachita National ForestBOHANNAN
30 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2010Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20224
28 September 2004Debris and open burning4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20380

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Le Flore County

Storms near this place

32 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitesboro in 32 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 18 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 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 2020Tornado (EF1)Whitesboro$30,000This tornado developed south of Highway 63, and west of Flag Lake Road, where trees were uprooted. It moved east-northeast damaging a home, destroying an outbuilding, and uprooting more hardwood trees on 374th Avenue, before crossing Highway 63. The tornado continued east-northeast, uprooting trees on Camp Tom Hale Road and Bohannon Creek Lane, and then dissipated in heavily-wooded terrain north and west of NF6027. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 90 to 100 mph.
June 2019HailWhitesboro$20,000no account filed
April 2009HailWhitesboro$20,000no account filed
April 2023HailWhitesboro$15,000Half dollar size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindWhitesboro$15,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree onto a house.
June 2021Flash FloodWhitesboro$10,000Portions of several roads were reported flooded. A couple vehicles were stranded in the flood water.
May 2015Tornado (EF1)Whitesboro$10,000This tornado snapped or uprooted numerous trees and blew down power poles. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 95 to 105 mph.
May 2015HailWhitesboro$10,000no account filed
April 2020Thunderstorm WindWhitesboro$2,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down power lines and snapped large tree limbs.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindWhitesboro$2,000Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured to 78 mph. Trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindWhitesboro$2,000Several trees were blown down and a home had minor damage east of Whitesboro on Highway 63.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWhitesboro$500A tree limb was knocked down across a road, and trees were knocked down just west of Whitesboro.
March 2023Flash FloodWhitesboro-Locally heavy rainfall resulted in widespread street flooding in Whitesboro. Multiple roads were closed due to the flooding.
May 2020Tornado (EF1)Whitesboro-This tornado developed in heavily-wooded terrain. It uprooted a few softwood trees as it crossed NF6027, and uprooted numerous softwood trees as it crossed NF6152. It was observed by a storm spotter. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 90 to 95 mph.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindWhitesboro-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph.
May 2015Flash FloodWhitesboro-Portions of Highway 63 were flooded east of Whitesboro.
May 2024HailWhitesboro-no account filed
May 2021HailWhitesboro-no account filed
April 2020HailWhitesboro-no account filed
April 2020HailWhitesboro-no account filed
April 2020HailWhitesboro-no account filed
May 2008HailWhitesboro-no account filed
June 2007HailWhitesboro-no account filed
March 2007HailWhitesboro-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindWhitesboro-no account filed
April 2003HailWhitesboro-no account filed
May 2003HailWhitesboro-no account filed
May 2003HailWhitesboro-no account filed
February 2000HailWhitesboro-no account filed
August 1998HailWhitesboro-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWhitesboro-no account filed
April 1996HailWhitesboro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Le Flore 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
Lenox3.2 miles16
Muse6.6 miles16
Talihina9.5 miles18
Lamberson9.8 miles18
Compton10.6 miles18
Ludlow10.9 miles16
Honobia11.0 miles16
Big Cedar12.9 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 WhitesboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3475174The 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 1101736. 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.