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Gilmore, Oklahoma

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Cameron census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74953. The Survey maps it on the Poteau East quadrangle. It stands 538 feet above sea level.

Gilmore within Le Flore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Gilmore between 1992 and 2017, burning about 5,795 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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/incendiarism13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
19 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,800 acresOklahoma Division of ForestrySUGARLOAF
13 September 2017Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry10337
17 August 2004Arson/incendiarism10 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20351
16 August 2006Debris and open burning10 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20444
13 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry20157
10 August 2005Natural10 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20381
26 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Le Flore 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 Gilmore: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Chandler Clay MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Le Flore County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gilmore in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 flash flood. 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
May 2015Flash FloodGilmore-Numerous county roads were flooded and closed.

Every storm recorded in Le Flore 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
Neff3.9 miles16
Hill4.0 miles23
Monroe4.2 miles17
Trestle Ford4.8 miles21
Poteau5.3 miles16
Cameron5.6 miles14
Sorrels6.8 miles16
Witteville7.2 miles16

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 GilmoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30623537The 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 1100450. 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.