Forrester, Oklahoma

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Heavener census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74937. It stands on Sugar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hontubby quadrangle.

Forrester within Le Flore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

1900 USGS Winding Stair quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1909 USGS Winding Stair quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1950 USGS Mcalester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Heavener quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1962 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
1976 USGS Heavener SE quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Hontubby quadrangle1:24000
1989 USGS Mena quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

117 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Forrester between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,957 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 58 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/incendiarism	58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Debris and open burning	15
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	1
Fireworks	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2001	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
5 September 2000	Natural	1,000 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	COWSKIN CANYON
27 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
11 September 1997	Natural	7.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	BEECH
9 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
8 August 2006	Natural	10 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20432
5 August 2006	Natural	10 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20427
31 August 1995	Debris and open burning	135 acres	Ouachita National Forest	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Le Flore 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Loving	2.5 miles	22
Hontubby	2.6 miles	18
Sugar Creek	2.8 miles	21
Hiawatha	3.4 miles	21
Heavener	4.1 miles	17
Petros	4.4 miles	18
Hodgens Station	5.8 miles	17
Hodgen	5.9 miles	17

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 Forrester	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16736244	The 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 1101420. 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.