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Frogville, Oklahoma

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Fort Towson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74743. The Survey maps it on the Frogville quadrangle.

Frogville within Choctaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

37 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Frogville between 1995 and 2016, burning about 1,294 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
30 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFISH CAMP
7 August 1999Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS
15 August 2006Arson/incendiarism256 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKANAWHA FIRE 2
13 August 2006Natural75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 578
30 July 2008Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 139
24 July 2015Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS
19 July 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE-NOVICE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Choctaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Frogville: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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
Buster Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dave Buster Construction Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Choctaw County

Storms near this place

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frogville in 9 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 8 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2022Thunderstorm WindFrogville-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several large trees.
February 2009HailFrogville-no account filed
May 2003HailFrogville-no account filed
April 2000HailFrogville-no account filed
April 1999HailFrogville-no account filed
March 1997HailFrogville-no account filed
March 1997HailFrogville-no account filed
April 1994HailFrogville-no account filed
April 1993HailFrogville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Choctaw 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
Huskey3.8 miles10
Shoals4.5 miles9
Sawyer8.6 miles15
Fort Towson8.7 miles15
Fallon8.9 miles9
West Fort Towson8.9 miles15
Ord9.9 miles9
Swink10.2 miles17

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 FrogvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5505318The 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 1100435. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.