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Conser, Oklahoma

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Heavener census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74937. The Survey maps it on the Hodgen quadrangle.

Conser within Le Flore County

On record in Conser

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

140 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Conser between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,786 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 48 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/incendiarism48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Debris and open burning28
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOuachita National ForestHOT DOG 2
6 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry20229
6 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution4.0 acresOuachita National ForestCHOCTAW 31
27 September 2006Naturalunder an acreOuachita National ForestBLUE MTN #1
27 September 2006Natural2.0 acresOuachita National ForestBLUE MTN 3
18 September 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20362
13 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresOuachita National ForestSUGAR LOAF VISTA
1 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOuachita National ForestTRUCK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Le Flore 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 Conser: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Le Flore County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Conser in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2011: 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
November 2011Flash FloodConser$100,000Multiple roads across southern Le Flore County were flooded and impassable. Water rescues were conducted at Cedar Lake where recreational vehicles were washed away.
May 1998HailConser-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Le Flore 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
Hodgen2.8 miles17
Hodgens Station3.0 miles17
Independence3.0 miles17
Reichert3.7 miles17
Petros4.5 miles18
Heavener5.6 miles17
Zoe5.8 miles17
Glendale5.9 miles17

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 ConserAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16736247The 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 1101364. 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.