Garden Grove, Oklahoma

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Shawnee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74864. It stands on Painter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shawnee NE quadrangle. It stands 958 feet above sea level.

Garden Grove within Pottawatomie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1896 USGS Seminole and Prague quadrangle1:125000
1909 USGS Shawnee quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Shawnee NE quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Shawnee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

26 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Garden Grove between 2005 and 2020, burning about 657 acres in total. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	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
18 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	84 acres	Wewoka Agency	BOOM TOWN
9 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	136 acres	Wewoka Agency	BENNETT
8 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wewoka Agency	SAME SPOT
2 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kickapoo Field Office	HEADSET
12 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kickapoo Field Office	JOHNSON
11 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	4.4 acres	Wewoka Agency	WHITE FLATBED
4 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Kickapoo Field Office	ECONTUCHKA
16 July 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Wewoka Agency	MILE MARKER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawatomie 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
Econtuchka	1.3 miles	12
Bellemont	3.0 miles	12
Johnson	3.9 miles	12
Centerview	5.7 miles	10
Neal	6.0 miles	12
Keokuk Falls	7.2 miles	10
Aydelotte	7.6 miles	14
Shawnee	10.4 miles	15

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 Garden Grove	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q107535139	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 1100441. 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.