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Bethel Acres, Oklahoma

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Shawnee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74801. The Survey maps it on the Shawnee Reservoir quadrangle. 3,029 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,134 feet above sea level.

Bethel Acres within Pottawatomie County

Population over time

2 figures

Bethel Acres grew from 2,895 to 3,029 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
20102,895
20203,029+134 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

17 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Bethel Acres between 2005 and 2019, burning about 1,352 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
13 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouthern Plains Regional OfficeBENSON
19 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKickapoo Field OfficeLEO
11 June 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresKickapoo Field OfficeFRANK MONDAY
18 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKickapoo Field OfficeACME
16 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use27 acresSouthern Plains Regional OfficeSUMAC
13 March 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution25 acresSouthern Plains Regional OfficeMACARTHUR
1 March 2012Debris and open burning34 acresKickapoo Field Office13 TH STREET
20 December 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined146 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryWALKER ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawatomie County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bethel Acres: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Chancellor PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Markwell Sand Co Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pottawatomie 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
Gaddy2.1 miles13
Clarks Heights4.9 miles13
Shawnee5.5 miles15
Dale5.7 miles13
Tecumseh5.9 miles15
Pink6.0 miles13
Shawnee Town (historical)6.3 miles15
Morvin7.3 miles13

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 Bethel AcresAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2548248The 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 1102929. 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.