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Zena, Oklahoma

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Jay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74346. The Survey maps it on the Jay quadrangle. 181 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 951 feet above sea level.

Zena within Delaware County

Population over time

2 figures

Zena grew from 122 to 181 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
2010122
2020181+59 (+48%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

315 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 315 fires within 5 miles of Zena between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,878 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 110 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined123
Arson/incendiarism110
Debris and open burning46
Equipment and vehicle use12
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2001Arson/incendiarism20 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2000Natural1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2000Natural1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
8 August 2011Arson/incendiarism90 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30432
8 August 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
29 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this place

23 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Zena in 23 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 2 tornado. 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
April 2013Tornado (EF2)Zena$400,000This tornado developed along the leading edge of the bow echo. Near the beginning of its track, it destroyed a large swath of hardwood trees and severely damaged a home. Several other homes were damaged by the tornado, barns and outbuildings were destroyed, and power poles were snapped. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 115 to 125 mph.
March 2020HailZena$50,000Large hail damaged vehicles, and the roofs of homes.
March 2020HailZena$50,000Large hail damaged vehicles, and the roofs of homes.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindZena$25,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a large shed. Large tree limbs were also blown down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindZena$3,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs and damaged the roofs of a few barns.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindZena$1,000Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindZena$100Thunderstorm winds blew a large tree down onto a highway.
May 2013Tornado (EF1)Zena-This tornado developed near the shore of Grand Lake and traveled east-northeast, snapping large tree limbs and uprooting many trees in its path. No significant damage was noted to the homes in the path near the lake shore. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 90 to 100 mph.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindZena-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large trees at Shangri-La Marina.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindZena-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down several large tree limbs.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindZena-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down several trees.
October 2004Thunderstorm WindZena-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a tree.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindZena-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew a large tree down.
May 2024HailZena-no account filed
March 2006HailZena-no account filed
May 2006HailZena-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindZena-no account filed
April 2001HailZena-no account filed
May 2000HailZena-no account filed
September 1999HailZena-no account filed
March 1999HailZena-no account filed
August 1999HailZena-no account filed
November 1998Thunderstorm WindZena-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Dennis3.4 miles14
Jay6.0 miles19
Brush Creek6.5 miles19
Eucha7.4 miles19
Chloeta8.0 miles19
Grove8.1 miles14
Cleora8.5 miles14
Bernice8.9 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 ZenaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2210123The 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 1100957. 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.