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Brush Creek, Oklahoma

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Jay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74346. The Survey maps it on the Jay quadrangle. 14 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Brush Creek within Delaware County

Population over time

2 figures

Brush Creek fell from 35 to 14 between 2010 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
201035
202014-21 (-60%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

608 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 608 fires within 5 miles of Brush Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,857 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 234 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/incendiarism234
Missing data/not specified/undetermined186
Debris and open burning100
Equipment and vehicle use31
Recreation and ceremony16
Natural16
Smoking10
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Misuse of fire by a minor4
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
9 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry30519
9 September 2001Natural1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use10 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30497
22 September 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30526

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware 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
Jay0.7 miles19
Sycamore3.9 miles18
Oak Hill-Piney4.1 miles18
Eucha5.4 miles19
Zena6.5 miles19
Tagg Flats9.1 miles19
Bull Hollow9.6 miles19
Old Eucha9.8 miles19

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 Brush CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3313550The 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 1853458. 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.