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Flute Springs, Oklahoma

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Sallisaw North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74931. It lies near Hastings Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Marble City quadrangle. 87 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 837 feet above sea level.

Flute Springs within Sequoyah County

Population over time

3 figures

Flute Springs fell from 182 to 87 between 2000 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
2000182
2010130-52 (-29%)
202087-43 (-33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

558 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 558 fires within 5 miles of Flute Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17,406 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 252 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/incendiarism252
Missing data/not specified/undetermined166
Debris and open burning70
Recreation and ceremony18
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking11
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Misuse of fire by a minor8

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 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresOklahoma Division of ForestrySIELLY ROAD
7 September 2000Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism20 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance7.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2004Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30531
30 September 2002Debris and open burning150 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2001Natural1.0 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Flute Springs: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Marble City Mine #2 & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast 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
Marble City2.8 miles17
Dwight Mission5.5 miles17
Brushy6.1 miles18
Evening Shade6.5 miles20
Pinhook Corner7.1 miles20
Stoney Point7.7 miles18
Box9.4 miles20
Blackgum9.8 miles20

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 Flute SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q968191The 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 1853469. 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.