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Blackland, Oklahoma

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Northwest Osage census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74056. The Survey maps it on the Pearsonia quadrangle.

Blackland within Osage County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Blackland between 2014 and 2018, burning about 20,328 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 March 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution20,307 acresOsage AgencyWEST 60
27 February 2014Equipment and vehicle use21 acresOsage AgencyPERSONIA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osage 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
Pearsonia2.9 miles12
Foraker4.9 miles11
Myers7.1 miles12
Shidler9.5 miles12
Carter Nine10.7 miles13
Grainola11.2 miles12
Webb City11.6 miles12
Opah11.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100214. 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.