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Blanch, Oklahoma

17 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. The Survey maps it on the Stilwell West quadrangle.

Blanch within Adair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

749 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 749 fires within 5 miles of Blanch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,119 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 442 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/incendiarism442
Missing data/not specified/undetermined122
Debris and open burning113
Recreation and ceremony17
Smoking15
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural11
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Misuse of fire by a minor5
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
7 September 2001Debris and open burning4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry30461
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCherokee Nation Tribe30513A
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 1998Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry30527
19 September 2000Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma 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 Blanch: 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 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
Zion1.6 miles17
Stilwell2.9 miles17
Cherry Tree3.1 miles18
Lyons3.2 miles17
Marietta4.2 miles17
Stony Point4.7 miles17
Salem5.1 miles17
Fairfield5.3 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100215. 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.