Canadian Fork, Oklahoma

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Quinton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74432. It stands on Longtown Creek. The Survey maps it on the Longtown quadrangle.

Canadian Fork within Pittsburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1900 USGS Canadian quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Longtown quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Eufaula quadrangle1:100000
1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

221 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 221 fires within 5 miles of Canadian Fork between 1992 and 2018, burning about 9,811 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 119 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/incendiarism	119
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	54
Debris and open burning	26
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	7
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20411
6 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	35 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
5 September 2006	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20466
5 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20467
30 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	180 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	COPPERHEAD
28 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20483
28 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20429
28 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20430

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pittsburg 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Longtown	0.8 miles	13
Highway 9 Landing	1.9 miles	14
Carlton Landing	2.8 miles	13
Russellville	8.0 miles	14
Canadian	8.1 miles	14
Sams Point	9.4 miles	14
Bristow Point	9.5 miles	17
Crowder	11.2 miles	14

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.

Wikidata item Q122545694

The 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 1090891. 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.