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Greasy, Oklahoma

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Stilwell West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74931. It stands on Copeland Branch. The Survey maps it on the Greasy quadrangle. 248 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 886 feet above sea level.

Greasy within Adair County

Population over time

2 figures

Greasy fell from 372 to 248 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
2010372
2020248-124 (-33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

875 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 875 fires within 5 miles of Greasy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 30,957 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 443 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/incendiarism443
Missing data/not specified/undetermined249
Debris and open burning102
Equipment and vehicle use19
Smoking18
Natural17
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2011Arson/incendiarism11 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30473
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresCherokee Nation Tribe30549A
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresCherokee Nation TribeCMS#1
5 September 2011Arson/incendiarism385 acresCherokee Nation TribeWALKER GAP
5 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCherokee Nation TribeGREASY
4 September 2011Arson/incendiarism25 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30458
30 September 2004Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30531

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adair 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
Bunch3.4 miles17
Lyons5.8 miles17
Cherry Tree6.0 miles18
Bell7.5 miles19
Blanch8.2 miles17
Zion8.7 miles17
Salem9.6 miles17
Elohim City10.0 miles19

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 GreasyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1851401The 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 1100461. 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.