Bedwell, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Panama-Bokoshe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74930. The Survey maps it on the Panama quadrangle.

Bedwell within Le Flore County

On record in Bedwell

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Skullyville County Jaillisted 1980 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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 Smith quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Panama quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Panama quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Bedwell between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,813 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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	31
Arson/incendiarism	16
Debris and open burning	9
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	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 2002	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
30 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
2 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
19 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,700 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	CALHOUN
13 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
30 August 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
3 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20419
1 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	75 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20416

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Le Flore County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bedwell: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown Sandstone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Le Flore 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
Panama	2.4 miles	14
Coal Creek	3.6 miles	14
Shady Point	3.7 miles	14
Bokoshe	4.1 miles	16
Calhoun	4.2 miles	16
Latham	5.3 miles	17
Ward	5.4 miles	14
Sunset Corner	5.9 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100200. 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.