Gabriel, Oklahoma

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Tahlequah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74464. It lies near Keener Knob. The Survey maps it on the Thompson Corner quadrangle.

Gabriel within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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.

1901 USGS Muscogee quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1901 USGS Muskogee quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1905 USGS Muscogee quadrangle1:125000
1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Hulbert quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1950 USGS Hulbert quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Hulbert NE quadrangle1:24000
1974 USGS Thompson Corner quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Muskogee quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

313 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 313 fires within 5 miles of Gabriel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,827 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 72 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/undetermined	87
Debris and open burning	75
Arson/incendiarism	72
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Natural	20
Recreation and ceremony	11
Smoking	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4

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
8 September 2000	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
7 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
6 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Cherokee Nation Tribe	TAHLEQUAH CEMETERY
5 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30469
4 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
30 September 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
3 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
3 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee 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
Thompson Corner	1.3 miles	20
Shady Grove	1.9 miles	20
Hulbert	4.1 miles	20
Tahlequah	5.1 miles	19
Lost City	5.6 miles	20
Green Country Estates	5.7 miles	18
Gideon	5.8 miles	15
Metory	6.2 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1763566. 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.