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Fewell, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the North Pushmataha census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74558. It stands on Uphill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Albion SE quadrangle.

Fewell within Pushmataha County

On record in Fewell

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

206 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 206 fires within 5 miles of Fewell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,321 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 102 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/incendiarism102
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Debris and open burning25
Equipment and vehicle use18
Natural13
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
30 September 2005Natural1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10566
30 September 2002Debris and open burning10 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2005Natural6.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10566
28 September 2000Smoking3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarism40 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 2014Arson/incendiarism19 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
1 September 2015Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
9 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pushmataha County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fewell: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Two Unnamed Shale PitsClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pushmataha County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fewell in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2016: 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2016Thunderstorm WindFewell-Strong thunderstorm wind uprooted trees.
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Fewell-A brief tornado developed over open country north of Highway 144. The tornado resulted in no known damage.
June 2015HailFewell-no account filed
March 1997HailFewell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pushmataha 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
Nolia5.9 miles16
Nashoba8.9 miles16
Albion10.3 miles15
Kiamichi10.5 miles14
Nashoba Y12.3 miles15
Tuskahoma13.7 miles14
Divide13.9 miles15
Clayton16.6 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100410. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.