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Yanush, Oklahoma

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the South Latimer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74574. The Survey maps it on the Yanush quadrangle.

Yanush within Latimer County

On record in Yanush

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

602 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 602 fires within 5 miles of Yanush between 1992 and 2020, burning about 26,572 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 236 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/incendiarism236
Missing data/not specified/undetermined162
Debris and open burning111
Equipment and vehicle use38
Natural23
Recreation and ceremony16
Smoking9
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2005Debris and open burning9.0 acresTalihina AgencyANDERSON C
30 September 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTalihina AgencyCAMP FIRE
29 September 2005Naturalunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry10560
29 September 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10373
27 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Latimer 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 Yanush: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Clayton No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Latimer County

Storms near this place

37 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yanush in 37 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 21 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 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
June 2023Thunderstorm WindYanush$35,000Thunderstorm wind resulted in at least $35,000 in damage to the utility infrastructure across the county during this severe thunderstorm.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindYanush$5,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour destroyed a barn in Buffalo Valley.
April 1995HailYanush$5,000,,,,,,,,TSTM Wind
February 1999Thunderstorm WindYanush$1,500A large tree was blown over and the skirting was blown off of a mobile home near Yanush. The windows were blown out of a home on Sardis Lake.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindYanush$1,000Several trees were blown down and a porch of a home in Yanush was damaged by strong thunderstorm wind.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindYanush$500There was tree damage north of Yanush.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindYanush$100Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs.
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Yanush-A tornado that apparently developed over Sardis Lake uprooted a few trees and snapped numerous large tree limbs. Maximum estimated wind in the tornado based on this damage was about 85 mph.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindYanush-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several large tree limbs.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindYanush-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a few large trees 2 miles north of Albion.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindYanush-Thunderstorm wind estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down numerous trees.
February 2009HailYanush-Nickel size hail occurred 3 miles northeast of Albion.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindYanush-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
March 2008Flash FloodYanush-Heavy rain caused water to flow over numerous county roads east and west of Yanush.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindYanush-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindYanush-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 65 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
May 2001Tornado (F0)Yanush-An F0 tornado touched down briefly just southeast of Yanush. No damage was reported.
April 1999HailYanush-Location: on the Latimer/Pushmataha county line
April 1999HailYanush-Location: Buffalo Valley
January 2023HailYanush-no account filed
October 2019HailYanush-no account filed
March 2016HailYanush-no account filed
March 2012HailYanush-no account filed
April 2011HailYanush-no account filed
April 2011HailYanush-no account filed
July 2009HailYanush-no account filed
April 2008HailYanush-no account filed
April 2007HailYanush-no account filed
March 2006HailYanush-no account filed
May 2003HailYanush-no account filed
April 2001HailYanush-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindYanush-no account filed
September 2001HailYanush-no account filed
February 2000HailYanush-no account filed
June 1998HailYanush-no account filed
June 1998HailYanush-no account filed
June 1998HailYanush-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Latimer 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
Veterans Colony6.7 miles16
Higgins9.5 miles15
Damon10.0 miles16
Wilburton14.4 miles15
Gowen14.7 miles16
Lutie15.0 miles15
Bowers15.0 miles16
Bengal15.8 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.

Wikidata item Q122569033The 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 1100036. 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.