Hiawatha, Oklahoma

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Heavener census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74937. It stands on Cane Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bates quadrangle.

Hiawatha within Le Flore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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.

1887 USGS Poteau Mountain #2 quadrangle1:62500
1890 USGS Poteau Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1899 USGS Poteau Mountain quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1950 USGS Mcalester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Bates quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Bates quadrangle1:24000, 3 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
1989 USGS Mena quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

66 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Hiawatha between 1993 and 2020, burning about 4,411 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 31 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	31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Debris and open burning	8
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Fireworks	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2000	Natural	1,000 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	COWSKIN CANYON
28 September 2003	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1997	Natural	7.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	BEECH
9 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
3 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
24 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Le Flore 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sugar Creek	0.6 miles	21
Loving	1.9 miles	22
Forrester	3.4 miles	18
Hontubby	6.0 miles	18
Trestle Ford	6.9 miles	21
Heavener	7.1 miles	17
Monroe	7.4 miles	17
Petros	7.7 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1101456. 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.