BlockBokhoma, Oklahoma
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Southeast McCurtain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74740. The Survey maps it on the Bokhoma quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1950 USGS Bokhoma quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS Bokhoma quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
246 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 246 fires within 5 miles of Bokhoma between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,466 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 122 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/incendiarism | 122 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 37 |
| Natural | 29 |
| Debris and open burning | 28 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 10485 |
| 6 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Talihina Agency | CLAMPETT#2 |
| 6 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Ouachita National Forest | MIDNIGHT |
| 29 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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.
| Wikidata item Q122549173 | The 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 1101302. 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.