BlockAmerica, Oklahoma
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Southeast McCurtain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74740. The Survey maps it on the Bokhoma quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1950 USGS Bokhoma quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS Bokhoma quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
223 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 223 fires within 5 miles of America between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,824 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 122 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/incendiarism | 122 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 38 |
| Debris and open burning | 20 |
| Natural | 19 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 10485 |
| 6 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Talihina Agency | CLAMPETT#2 |
| 6 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 55 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 10227 |
| 5 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Ouachita National Forest | MIDNIGHT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names America in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2019: 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | America | - | The same supercell thunderstorm that spawned the brief EF-1 tornado in the community of Haworth developed a potent rear flank downdraft, which produced a large swath of 65-85 mph winds along D2213 Road and adjacent roads just east of the America community in far Southeastern McCurtain County and just into Little River County in far Southwest Arkansas. Hundreds of hardwood and softwood trees were snapped or uprooted, with the overwhelming majority of the trees laid over in a southeasterly direction. The breadth of the severe winds was at least 5 miles wide ending just inside the Arkansas state line. |
| September 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | America | - | Numerous trees and powerlines were downed east of Haworth, Oklahoma. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1101262. 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.