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Adamson, Oklahoma

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Hartshorne-Haileyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74547. It stands on Brushy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Adamson quadrangle.

Adamson within Pittsburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

335 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 335 fires within 5 miles of Adamson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,965 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 118 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/incendiarism118
Missing data/not specified/undetermined105
Debris and open burning67
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural12
Smoking9
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
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
5 September 2006Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20468
5 September 2002Smoking3.5 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2013Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20219
29 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20383
28 September 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pittsburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Adamson: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pittsburg County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adamson in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 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
March 2022Tornado (EF0)Adamson$75,000This tornado damaged several homes, rolled multiple trailers, damaged outbuildings, damaged a mobile home, uprooted a large hardwood tree, and snapped large tree limbs. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 80 to 85 mph.

Every storm recorded in Pittsburg 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
Centerville4.2 miles18
Dow4.3 miles18
Carbon4.9 miles17
Haileyville5.1 miles18
Hartshorne5.5 miles18
Bache5.8 miles17
Richville6.8 miles17
Craig7.2 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1089538. 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.