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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.

Dry Creek within Cherokee County

Population over time

2 figures

Dry 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.

YearPeople Change
2010227
2020233+6 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

349 since 1992

Regional 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/incendiarism149
Missing data/not specified/undetermined91
Debris and open burning62
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Smoking4
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2013Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2013Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2000Misuse of fire by a minor18 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2000Natural1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2016Debris and open burning32 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitsClayProducer

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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
Barber1.4 miles18
Caney Ridge1.9 miles18
Wildcat Point3.0 miles18
Cookson3.1 miles19
Pettit Bay3.9 miles18
Tenkiller4.4 miles18
Carters Landing4.5 miles18
Pettit5.3 miles18

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 CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2044145The 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.