Bunch, Oklahoma

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.

• 1898 USGS Tahlequah quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Tahlequah quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
• 1905 USGS Tahlequah quadrangle1:125000
• 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
• 1972 USGS Bunch quadrangle1:24000
• 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1978 USGS Stilwell quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 789 fires within 5 miles of Bunch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 33,210 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 371 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Greasy
• Lyons

Every fire recorded in Adair County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bunch in 54 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 26 hail, 19 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 3 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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.

Every storm recorded in Adair County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100245. 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.

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.