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Dripping Springs, Oklahoma

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Colcord census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74338. The Survey maps it on the Siloam Springs NW quadrangle. 54 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,100 feet above sea level.

Dripping Springs within Delaware County

Population over time

2 figures

Dripping Springs grew from 50 to 54 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.

YearPeople Change
201050
202054+4 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

234 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 234 fires within 5 miles of Dripping Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,808 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 80 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/incendiarism80
Missing data/not specified/undetermined58
Debris and open burning58
Natural13
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony4

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 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance7.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 2000Misuse of fire by a minor18 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2000Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minor8.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
9 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
30 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use15 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30454
29 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware 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 Dripping Springs: 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 Delaware 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
Flint2.1 miles19
Beckwith2.6 miles19
Flint Creek3.6 miles19
West Siloam Springs5.2 miles19
Colcord6.3 miles18
Kansas7.0 miles18
Row7.3 miles18
Tonnece7.9 miles19

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 Dripping SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2315591The 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 1853462. 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.