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Green Country Estates, Oklahoma

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Tahlequah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74464. It stands on Goodman Branch. The Survey maps it on the Park Hill quadrangle.

Green Country Estates within Cherokee County

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

293 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 293 fires within 5 miles of Green Country Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,549 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 80 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/incendiarism80
Missing data/not specified/undetermined78
Debris and open burning77
Equipment and vehicle use22
Smoking12
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony9
Misuse of fire by a minor4

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 1998Natural1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarism50 acresCherokee Nation TribeTAHLEQUAH CEMETERY
6 September 2000Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2010Arson/incendiarism20 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30469
29 September 2016Arson/incendiarism4.6 acresCherokee Nation TribeRABBIT
26 September 2002Natural1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use10 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30478
2 September 2000Debris and open burningunder 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Green Country Estates: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast 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
Indian Meadows1.2 miles18
Tsa La Gi Indian Village1.6 miles18
Park Hill1.7 miles18
Tahlequah3.3 miles19
Metory3.4 miles20
Welling4.7 miles19
Zeb4.9 miles20
Woodall4.9 miles20

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.

Wikidata item Q122595615The 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 1093369. 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.