Crekola, Oklahoma

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Muskogee Southwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74401. It lies near Baucum Hill. The Survey maps it on the Southwest Muskogee quadrangle.

Crekola within Muskogee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

1901 USGS Muscogee quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1901 USGS Muskogee quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1905 USGS Muscogee quadrangle1:125000
1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Keefeton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Keefeton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Southwest Muskogee quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Muskogee quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Crekola between 1994 and 2012, burning about 948 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	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
6 July 2012	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	40304
6 April 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Chickasaw Agency	HWY69
4 March 1994	Arson/incendiarism	100 acres	Talihina Agency	not named
15 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Okmulgee Field Office	CHIMNEYMTN
9 February 2008	Arson/incendiarism	126 acres	Okmulgee Field Office	DRAGON SLAYER
31 October 2010	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30494
8 January 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	700 acres	Cherokee Nation Tribe	OKTAHA RD
27 January 2003	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30079

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskogee County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Crekola: 2 past producers. 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
	Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Muskogee 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
Beland	2.7 miles	14
Flusche	3.6 miles	14
Summit	4.4 miles	18
West Muskogee	4.6 miles	18
Taft	5.0 miles	14
Creek Agency (historical)	5.5 miles	18
Grandview Heights	6.4 miles	19
Muskogee	6.9 miles	19

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 Q122551502

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 1100333. 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.