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Dwight Mission, Oklahoma

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Sallisaw North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74962. It lies near Schoolhouse Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Marble City quadrangle. 76 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Dwight Mission within Sequoyah County

On record in Dwight Mission

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.

Population over time

2 figures

Dwight Mission grew from 55 to 76 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
201055
202076+21 (+38%)

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

388 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 388 fires within 5 miles of Dwight Mission between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,524 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 140 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/incendiarism140
Missing data/not specified/undetermined126
Debris and open burning69
Equipment and vehicle use18
Smoking11
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor4

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
7 September 2000Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burning4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism20 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance7.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2002Debris and open burning4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenance27 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sequoyah County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Dwight Mission: 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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 Shale PitClayPast Producer
Marble City Mine #2 & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sequoyah 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
Pinhook Corner1.9 miles20
Marble City2.8 miles17
McKey4.8 miles16
Flute Springs5.5 miles17
Evening Shade6.7 miles20
Brushy6.7 miles18
Sallisaw6.9 miles15
Box7.0 miles20

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 Dwight MissionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2081877The 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 1853465. 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.