Beachton, Oklahoma

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the North McCurtain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74957. The Survey maps it on the Watson quadrangle.

Beachton within McCurtain County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1902 USGS Lukfata quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1950 USGS Mcalester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Smithville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1962 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Watson quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS De Queen quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

344 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 344 fires within 5 miles of Beachton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,137 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 196 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	196
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	88
Debris and open burning	23
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
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
9 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
6 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	10230
6 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	80 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20230
6 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	850 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20231
6 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Talihina Agency	SE477
26 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20438
19 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	13 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCurtain 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
Watson	3.7 miles	16
Smithville	4.4 miles	16
Nani-chito	6.4 miles	16
Plunketville	6.7 miles	16
Sherwood	15.7 miles	19
Bethel	17.0 miles	19
Mount Herman	18.3 miles	19
Battiest	20.1 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100196. 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.