Hill, Oklahoma

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Cameron census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74932. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hartford quadrangle.

Hill within Le Flore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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 Greenwood quadrangle1:62500
1890 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1943 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:125000
1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1947 USGS Greenwood quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1951 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1987 USGS Hartford quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

68 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Hill between 1993 and 2017, burning about 1,744 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 20 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	20
Debris and open burning	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Smoking	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Natural	3

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
4 September 2000	Natural	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2005	Smoking	6.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
8 August 2005	Smoking	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Le Flore County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hill: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown Sandstone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working 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
Gilmore	4.0 miles	16
Cameron	4.4 miles	14
Rock Island	6.1 miles	23
Williams	6.4 miles	14
Neff	6.7 miles	16
Trestle Ford	7.1 miles	21
Monroe	7.5 miles	17
Tahona	8.5 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100497. 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.