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Anderson, Oklahoma

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Shawnee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74852. It stands on East Cottonwood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pearson quadrangle.

Anderson within Pottawatomie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Anderson in 2017, burning about 125 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
1 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined125 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryCOKER ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawatomie 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
Pearson3.7 miles15
Romulus3.8 miles15
Tribbey4.1 miles12
Macomb4.3 miles13
Trousdale4.4 miles12
Macomb-Y5.1 miles14
Chisney5.1 miles14
Avoca5.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100176. 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.