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Fort Cobb, Oklahoma

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Fort Cobb census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73038. It stands on Cobb Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Cobb quadrangle. 518 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,253 feet above sea level.

Fort Cobb within Caddo County

On record in Fort Cobb

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Cobb fell from 634 to 518 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
2010634
2020518-116 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

147 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Fort Cobb between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,506 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 21 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 burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Equipment and vehicle use25
Arson/incendiarism21
Natural8
Fireworks6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2000Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAnadarko AgencyTONKOWA
5 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAnadarko AgencyETHEL FIRE
4 September 2015Debris and open burning134 acresAnadarko AgencyCOPPERHEAD FIRE
4 September 2011Arson/incendiarism165 acresAnadarko AgencyPSP#2
3 September 2015Debris and open burning2.5 acresAnadarko AgencyYELLOW LAB FIRE
26 September 2012Natural2.0 acresAnadarko AgencyGOKEY DOKEY
14 September 2015Debris and open burning140 acresAnadarko AgencyMANY SPOTS FIRE
12 September 2015Debris and open burning2.3 acresAnadarko AgencyVOLUNTEER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caddo County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fort Cobb: 2 past producers. 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 Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Caddo 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
Nowhere4.3 miles12
Washita5.0 miles13
Apache Wye5.6 miles13
Pine Ridge5.7 miles13
Squaretop7.3 miles13
Broxton7.8 miles11
Carnegie8.9 miles8
Albert9.4 miles12

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 Fort CobbAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1826591The 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 1092951. 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.