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Bell, Oklahoma

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Stilwell East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74960. It lies near Sally Bull Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Big Round Mountain quadrangle. 191 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Bell within Adair County

Population over time

2 figures

Bell fell from 535 to 191 between 2010 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
2010535
2020191-344 (-64%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

2,949 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,949 fires within 5 miles of Bell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 76,324 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 2064 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/incendiarism2064
Missing data/not specified/undetermined521
Debris and open burning213
Natural46
Recreation and ceremony32
Smoking30
Equipment and vehicle use17
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Other causes2
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30470
9 September 2006Arson/incendiarism20 acresCherokee Nation TribeSTEP DOWN
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresCherokee Nation Tribe30549A
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresCherokee Nation TribeCMS#1
8 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 1998Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adair 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 Bell: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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 Shale PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Adair 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
Salem3.3 miles17
Honey Hill3.6 miles17
Cherry Tree3.9 miles18
Zion5.4 miles17
Elohim City6.2 miles19
Blanch6.5 miles17
Stilwell7.2 miles17
Greasy7.5 miles18

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 BellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3313563The 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 1100201. 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.