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Cairo, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the East Coal census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74538. The Survey maps it on the Coalgate quadrangle.

Cairo within Coal County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

10 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Cairo between 2005 and 2019, burning about 2,306 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use65 acresTalihina AgencyBUTLER
3 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresTalihina AgencyLONESTAR
2 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresTalihina AgencyCOALATOKA
7 March 2006Natural2.8 acresTalihina AgencyEDEN
12 March 2005Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTalihina AgencyWARDVILLE
24 February 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined800 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryRUB BOARD # 2
20 February 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryRUB BOARD
13 February 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined650 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryCOAL CREEK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coal County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cairo: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Coal County

Storms near this place

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cairo in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2000: 4 hail. 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
July 1994HailCairo-An isolated severe thunderstorm in southeast Oklahoma during the late afternoon hours on the 13th produced hail up to dime-size, 6 miles north of Cairo.
May 2000HailCairo-no account filed
July 1997HailCairo-no account filed
October 1996HailCairo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coal 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
Cottonwood4.5 miles14
Coalgate5.9 miles14
Phillips7.5 miles14
Lehigh9.5 miles17
Parker10.5 miles13
Centrahoma11.4 miles14
Olney14.6 miles14
Tupelo15.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100257. 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.