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Gideon, Oklahoma

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the North Cherokee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74464. It stands on Blackbird Creek. The Survey maps it on the Peggs quadrangle. 229 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Gideon within Cherokee County

Population over time

2 figures

Gideon grew from 49 to 229 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
201049
2020229+180 (+367%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

713 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 713 fires within 5 miles of Gideon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 21,074 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 303 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/incendiarism303
Debris and open burning163
Missing data/not specified/undetermined141
Equipment and vehicle use35
Natural24
Recreation and ceremony15
Smoking15
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
8 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burning15 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2000Naturalunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1995Smoking4.0 acresCherokee Nation TribeF139
4 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresCherokee Nation TribeF140
30 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Gideon: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Moodys4.3 miles18
Liberty5.3 miles18
Shady Grove5.6 miles20
Lost City5.7 miles20
Gabriel5.8 miles20
Peggs6.0 miles15
Thompson Corner7.0 miles20
Ellerville7.1 miles18

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 GideonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5879375The 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 1100447. 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.