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Brent, Oklahoma

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Muldrow census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74955. The Survey maps it on the Robert S Kerr Dam quadrangle. 760 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 512 feet above sea level.

Brent within Sequoyah County

Population over time

3 figures

Brent grew from 504 to 760 between 2000 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
2000504
2010716+212 (+42%)
2020760+44 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Brent between 1992 and 2018, burning about 2,355 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 26 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/undetermined40
Arson/incendiarism26
Debris and open burning20
Equipment and vehicle use8
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1

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 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance7.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2013Debris and open burning15 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 2000Natural1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
6 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
5 August 2005Arson/incendiarism13 acresCherokee Nation TribeSALLISAW A
31 August 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry30541
31 August 2000Debris and open burning4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sequoyah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Brent: 10 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 & Sandstone PitClay, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer
H D Youngman Contr San & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sandstone & Shale PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sequoyah County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brent in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2022: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2022Thunderstorm WindBrent$125,000Strong thunderstorm wind destroyed three outbuildings, damaged the roofs of two homes, and blew down several trees.
December 2015FloodBrent-Portions of Highway 141 west of Gans were closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Sequoyah 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
Sadie3.5 miles15
Harrison5.3 miles15
Gans5.6 miles14
Sallisaw6.4 miles15
Hanson6.8 miles14
Seven Oaks8.5 miles14
Foreman8.6 miles16
Baldridge9.2 miles15

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 BrentAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2190967The 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 1853457. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.