Cherry Tree, Oklahoma
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Stilwell East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74960. It lies near Doublehead Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Greasy quadrangle. 703 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,086 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCherry Tree fell from 883 to 703 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 883 | |
| 2020 | 703 | -180 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1973 USGS Greasy quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Stilwell quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2,222 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,222 fires within 5 miles of Cherry Tree between 1992 and 2020, burning about 29,166 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 1561 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 | 1561 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 327 |
| Debris and open burning | 211 |
| Smoking | 29 |
| Natural | 28 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 9 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
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 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Cherokee Nation Tribe | 30549A |
| 9 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Cherokee Nation Tribe | CMS#1 |
| 8 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.5 acres | Cherokee Nation Tribe | BELL |
| 5 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Cherokee Nation Tribe | 30516A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cherry Tree: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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.
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 Cherry Tree | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q655873 | 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 1100288. 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.








