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Hamden, Oklahoma

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hugo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74523. The Survey maps it on the Antlers East quadrangle.

Hamden within Choctaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

176 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Hamden between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,690 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 52 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
Debris and open burning57
Arson/incendiarism52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural9
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
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
8 September 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10488
6 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use23 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10532
6 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTalihina Agency54
23 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10553
23 September 2003Arson/incendiarism20 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10408
2 September 2004Debris and open burning7.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10314

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Choctaw 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
Speer2.1 miles16
Kent3.6 miles16
Nelson6.4 miles16
Messer6.4 miles15
Apple8.0 miles16
Forney8.3 miles16
Hugo9.6 miles16
Soper10.2 miles15

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 HamdenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5644390The 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 1100472. 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.