Baldridge, Oklahoma

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Muldrow census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74948. It stands on Little Skin Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Fort Coffee quadrangle.

Baldridge within Sequoyah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1900 USGS Sallisaw quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1911 USGS Sallisaw quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Fort Coffee quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Fort Coffee quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Baldridge between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,716 acres in total. None started naturally. 30 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	37
Arson/incendiarism	30
Debris and open burning	19
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	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
8 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
7 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	45 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30589
5 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	80 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30459
4 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
3 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	16 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
2 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
18 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sequoyah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Baldridge: 9 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Sequoyah 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
Foreman	2.1 miles	16
Muldrow	3.2 miles	14
Cottonwood	3.8 miles	15
Redland	4.0 miles	15
Lone Oak	4.3 miles	14
Gans	4.3 miles	14
Flat Rock	4.5 miles	14
Blackjack	4.8 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100190. 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.