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Etta, Oklahoma

18 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 74471. It lies near Sugar Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Park Hill quadrangle. 80 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 646 feet above sea level.

Etta within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

553 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 553 fires within 5 miles of Etta between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,954 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 275 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/incendiarism275
Missing data/not specified/undetermined124
Debris and open burning92
Natural16
Equipment and vehicle use14
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Smoking8
Railroad operations and maintenance5
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 2005Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30547
9 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2000Natural1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2002Natural1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30486
17 September 2000Misuse of fire by a minor8.0 acresOklahoma 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Etta: 2 past producers. 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
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

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
Tenkiller2.0 miles18
Carters Landing2.2 miles18
Tailholt2.4 miles18
Welling3.7 miles19
Caney Ridge4.2 miles18
Wildcat Point4.5 miles18
Park Hill4.6 miles18
Keys4.7 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 EttaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q108293103The 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 2807001. 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.