BlockGoss, Oklahoma
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the North Atoka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74540. It stands on Cole Creek. The Survey maps it on the Daisy quadrangle.
On record in Goss
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Isaac Billy Homestead and Family Cemeterylisted 1980 · 0.4 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1898 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1898 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1909 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Mcalester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Daisy quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1991 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
204 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of Goss between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,494 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 71 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 | 71 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 67 |
| Debris and open burning | 32 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
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 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 10476 |
| 5 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 10225 |
| 5 September 2000 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 8.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 10520 |
| 29 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 10415 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100456. 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.