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Flint Creek, Oklahoma

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Colcord census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74347. It stands on Flint Creek. The Survey maps it on the Siloam Springs NW quadrangle. 741 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,100 feet above sea level.

Flint Creek within Delaware County

Population over time

2 figures

Flint Creek grew from 732 to 741 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
2010732
2020741+9 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

222 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 222 fires within 5 miles of Flint Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,889 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 67 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/undetermined76
Arson/incendiarism67
Debris and open burning45
Natural12
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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 1998Railroad operations and maintenance7.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 2000Misuse of fire by a minor18 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
9 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
29 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
25 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
23 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
23 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
21 August 2010Arson/incendiarism12 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30392

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware 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 Flint Creek: 1 past producer. 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

Every working recorded in Delaware 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
Flint1.9 miles19
Beckwith2.1 miles19
Kansas3.6 miles18
Dripping Springs3.6 miles19
Oaks6.1 miles18
Twin Oaks6.2 miles18
Cloud Creek6.4 miles19
Colcord6.5 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 Flint CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3313185The 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 1853468. 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.