Dry Creek, Oklahoma
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the East Cherokee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74451. It lies near Hopper Flat. The Survey maps it on the Bunch quadrangle. 233 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresDry Creek grew from 227 to 233 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 | 227 | |
| 2020 | 233 | +6 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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
- 1972 USGS Bunch quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Stilwell quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
349 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 349 fires within 5 miles of Dry Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,379 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 149 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 | 149 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 91 |
| Debris and open burning | 62 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 September 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 September 2000 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 18 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 September 2000 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 26 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 32 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 16 September 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Dry Creek: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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 Shale Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Shale Pits | Clay | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barber | 1.4 miles | 18 | |
| Caney Ridge | 1.9 miles | 18 | |
| Wildcat Point | 3.0 miles | 18 | |
| Cookson | 3.1 miles | 19 | |
| Pettit Bay | 3.9 miles | 18 | |
| Tenkiller | 4.4 miles | 18 | |
| Carters Landing | 4.5 miles | 18 | |
| Pettit | 5.3 miles | 18 |
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 Dry Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2044145 | 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 1853463. 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.








