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Five Mile, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Quapaw census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74363. It stands on Little Fivemile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Peoria quadrangle.

Five Mile within Ottawa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

203 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Five Mile between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,049 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 25 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
Debris and open burning84
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Natural37
Arson/incendiarism25
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking2
Fireworks2
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
6 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreMiami AgencyWATSON
29 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresKansas Forest Service177
27 September 2010Natural3.8 acresMiami AgencyMATTCRAW
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism25 acresMiami AgencyDEVILS
16 September 2000Debris and open burning2.1 acresMiami AgencyTHIRD TIME
13 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCherokee County166
28 August 2010Natural197 acresMiami AgencyFIFTY ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Five Mile: 29 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc. 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
Wade MineZincPast Producer1920, 1926
Baxter SpringsLead, ZincPast Producer
Bendrum,Corbus and OthersLead, ZincPast Producer1850, 1885
Blue Ribbon and Lucky Jenny MineLead, ZincPast Producer1917, 1919
Campbell MineLead, ZincPast Producer1925, 1928
Crawford-HolderLead, ZincPast Producer1922, 1924
Hartley-Grantham TractLead, ZincPast Producer1930, 1932
Henshaw TractLead, ZincPast Producer1930, 1932
Pinnick MinesLead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ottawa 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
Mills (historical)3.7 miles14
Lincolnville4.4 miles14
Oak Grove4.6 miles14
Hockerville (historical)4.7 miles14
Peoria4.9 miles14
Quapaw5.4 miles14
Zincville (historical)6.2 miles14
Picher (historical)7.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100413. 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.