BlockElohim City, Oklahoma
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Stilwell East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74948. It lies near Big Round Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Big Round Mountain quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 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
- 1973 USGS Big Round Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Moten Mountain quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Stilwell quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
773 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 773 fires within 5 miles of Elohim City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 48,486 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 472 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 | 472 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 181 |
| Debris and open burning | 54 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Natural | 12 |
| Smoking | 11 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Other causes | 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 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Cherokee Nation Tribe | STEP DOWN |
| 6 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | 160 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 60 acres | Cherokee Nation Tribe | 30511A |
| 3 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 70 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 September 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 17 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 September 2002 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 7.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 30523 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bell | 6.2 miles | 19 | |
| Salem | 9.2 miles | 17 | |
| Honey Hill | 9.2 miles | 17 | |
| Cherry Tree | 9.7 miles | 18 | |
| Greasy | 10.0 miles | 18 | |
| Zion | 11.6 miles | 17 | |
| Blanch | 12.6 miles | 17 | |
| Lyons | 12.9 miles | 17 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2806996. 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.