Oakchia, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Lisman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36916. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Whitfield quadrangle.

Oakchia within Choctaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Whitfield quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Oakchia between 1999 and 2016, burning about 228 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20140903-001
31 August 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 August 2000	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 June 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 June 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
1 April 2004	Debris and open burning	48 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 March 2004	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Choctaw 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cedahoma (historical)	1.9 miles	9
Edna	3.5 miles	8
Naheola	5.0 miles	8
Indian Springs	5.7 miles	8
Pelham	5.9 miles	8
Tompkinsville	6.6 miles	8
Deas	6.6 miles	8
Pennington	6.8 miles	8

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 Q122573112

The 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 156817. 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.