Fort Towson, Oklahoma

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 2 records

• Spencer Academylisted 1975
• Willie W. Wilson Houselisted 1982

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

• Fort Towson, 1 mi. Northeast of Fort Towson, HC 63, Box 1580, Fort Towsonfederal building survey, 1 photograph

Fort Towson fell from 519 to 492 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.

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.

• 1901 USGS Alikchi quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1950 USGS Mcalester quadrangle1:250000, 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
• 1971 USGS Fort Towson quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Antlers quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Fort Towson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,682 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 29 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• West Fort Towson
• Swink
• Sand Bluff
• Sawyer
• Virgil

Every fire recorded in Choctaw County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1092969. 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.