BlockGrimes, Oklahoma
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the South Roger Mills census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73628. The Survey maps it on the Grimes quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1955 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Sweetwater quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Elk City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Grimes quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
3 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Grimes between 2003 and 2008, burning about 210 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 June 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Cibola National Forest | COLBY |
| 17 March 2003 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Cibola National Forest | SMITH 2 |
| 3 February 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Cibola National Forest | PARKHURST |
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 1100467. 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.