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Alluwe, Oklahoma

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the New Alluwe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74016. The Survey maps it on the Chelsea quadrangle.

Alluwe within Nowata County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Alluwe between 2010 and 2016, burning about 1,464 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
24 February 2016Arson/incendiarism840 acresCherokee Nation TribeSALT CREEK
5 December 2010Natural13 acresCherokee Nation TribeYELLOW JACKET
19 December 2010Natural610 acresCherokee Nation TribeCHELSEA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nowata County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Alluwe: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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 Shale PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Nowata County

Storms near this place

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alluwe in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2011: 7 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 1994Thunderstorm WindNew Alluwe$500no account filed
April 2011HailAlluwe-no account filed
March 2008HailAlluwe-no account filed
March 2008HailAlluwe-no account filed
May 2003HailAlluwe-no account filed
December 1999HailAlluwe-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindNew Alluwe-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindNew Alluwe-no account filed
June 1995HailNew Alluwe-no account filed
November 1994HailNew Alluwe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nowata 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
Coodys Bluff7.3 miles16
Watova8.9 miles16
Nowata10.1 miles17
Childers11.5 miles17
Delaware14.1 miles17
Sanders14.2 miles14
Lenapah18.4 miles17
Glenoak18.9 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1102839. 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.