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Evening Shade, Oklahoma

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Vian census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74962. It lies near Blackgum Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Blackgum quadrangle. 378 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Evening Shade within Sequoyah County

Population over time

2 figures

Evening Shade grew from 359 to 378 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
2010359
2020378+19 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

337 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 337 fires within 5 miles of Evening Shade between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,611 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 148 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/incendiarism148
Missing data/not specified/undetermined92
Debris and open burning68
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural6
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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 2000Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2000Debris and open burning4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2000Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2002Debris and open burning4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2012Other causes1.0 acresCherokee Nation TribeSNAKE CREEK
23 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenance27 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2005Debris and open burning12 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30554
2 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Evening Shade: 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 PitsSand 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
Blackgum3.4 miles20
Box3.9 miles20
Linder Bend (historical)5.8 miles20
Redbird Smith6.3 miles20
Marble City6.5 miles17
Flute Springs6.5 miles17
Pinhook Corner6.5 miles20
Dwight Mission6.7 miles17

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 Evening ShadeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2720210The 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 1853466. 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.