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Hill Chapel, Oklahoma

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Broken Bow census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74728. The Survey maps it on the Shults quadrangle.

Hill Chapel within McCurtain County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

460 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 460 fires within 5 miles of Hill Chapel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,178 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 219 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/incendiarism219
Missing data/not specified/undetermined120
Debris and open burning71
Equipment and vehicle use24
Natural10
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony3

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined28 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTalihina AgencyT BO JONES
8 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTalihina AgencySE492
8 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresTalihina Agency0440
8 September 1995Debris and open burning3.0 acresTalihina Agency0443
7 September 2011Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10538
7 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry10534
7 September 1995Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresLittle River National Wildlife Refuge404 DITCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCurtain County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Hill Chapel: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Idabel PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in McCurtain 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
Crossroads2.3 miles12
Broken Bow3.0 miles17
Holly Creek3.7 miles12
Steel Junction4.0 miles15
Lukfata (historical)4.3 miles11
Oak Hill6.0 miles15
Shults6.3 miles11
Redland6.6 miles11

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 Q122554821The 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 1101462. 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.