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Belfonte, Oklahoma

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Roland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74948. It lies near Eagle Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Nicut quadrangle. 298 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 663 feet above sea level.

Belfonte within Sequoyah County

Population over time

3 figures

Belfonte fell from 426 to 298 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000426
2010394-32 (-8%)
2020298-96 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

484 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 484 fires within 5 miles of Belfonte between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,970 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 252 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/incendiarism252
Missing data/not specified/undetermined106
Debris and open burning64
Natural15
Recreation and ceremony13
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking11
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Railroad operations and maintenance5

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
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2000Arson/incendiarism140 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2000Misuse of fire by a minor8.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use160 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 1998Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2000Natural1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2000Natural11 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sequoyah 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 Belfonte: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Nicut2.8 miles18
Reeder Ford3.0 miles18
Long3.6 miles14
Short3.9 miles16
Copic Slab4.5 miles18
Liberty4.6 miles14
Remy6.2 miles14
Maple6.3 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BelfonteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q815435The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1853456. 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.