BlockHaw Creek, Oklahoma
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Heavener census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74937. It stands on Haw Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hontubby quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 18 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.
- 1900 USGS Winding Stair quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1909 USGS Winding Stair quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Mcalester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Heavener quadrangle1:62500, 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
- 1976 USGS Heavener SE quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Hontubby quadrangle1:24000
- 1989 USGS Mena quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
131 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Haw Creek between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,992 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 54 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 | 54 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Natural | 15 |
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Ouachita National Forest | not named |
| 21 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20236 |
| 14 September 2002 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 September 2011 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Ouachita National Forest | PINEAPPLE |
| 11 September 1997 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Ouachita National Forest | BEECH |
| 5 August 2010 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Ouachita National Forest | ROD CAMP |
| 31 August 2006 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Ouachita National Forest | GOLD FISH |
| 31 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
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 1101449. 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.