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Broxton, Oklahoma

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Apache census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73006. The Survey maps it on the Boone quadrangle.

Broxton within Caddo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

120 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Broxton between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,479 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 14 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
Debris and open burning34
Equipment and vehicle use23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism14
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Fireworks9
Natural5
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined110 acresAnadarko AgencyPORK RIND
5 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAnadarko AgencyTWIN CITY FIRE
5 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAnadarko AgencyFORT COBB FIRE
5 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use10 acresAnadarko AgencyAPACHE WYE FIRE
17 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAnadarko AgencyFIRE DANCE
15 September 2013Debris and open burning122 acresAnadarko AgencyKIOWA-2468-68
12 September 2018Debris and open burning7.7 acresAnadarko AgencyRIVERS EDGE
8 August 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAnadarko AgencyLAFERTY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caddo 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
Pine Ridge2.7 miles13
Hatchetville3.5 miles11
Apache Wye4.9 miles13
Stecker5.3 miles11
Boone6.6 miles11
Apache6.8 miles11
Fort Cobb7.8 miles13
Squaretop8.4 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 BroxtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14708403The 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 1100239. 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.