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Falls Creek Assembly, Oklahoma

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the West Murray census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73030. It stands on Falls Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dougherty quadrangle.

Falls Creek Assembly within Murray County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Falls Creek Assembly between 1992 and 2016, burning about 28,315 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural4
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
18 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresChickasaw AgencyJOHN TRACT
18 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresChickasaw AgencyMARRIS
15 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined11,577 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryARBUCKLE COMPLEX
18 August 2011Natural10 acresChickasaw National Recreation AreaDOUGHERTY #1
17 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1,423 acresChickasaw AgencyTURNER FALLS #3
16 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use3,360 acresChickasaw AgencyGEORGE JOHN
14 August 2006Smoking1.0 acresChickasaw Agency77 WEST
23 July 2006Smoking5.3 acresChickasaw AgencyHARLEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Murray County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Falls Creek Assembly: 13 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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
Davis Pit and PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Southern Rock Asphalt Co Limest PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
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

Every working recorded in Murray 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
Rayford1.0 miles17
Cedar Village1.6 miles16
Jollyville2.6 miles16
Dougherty3.5 miles17
Davis5.4 miles15
Crusher6.8 miles17
Washita8.4 miles15
Drake8.7 miles14

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 Falls Creek AssemblyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30636239The 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 1092757. 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.