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Hontubby, 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 Hontubby Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hontubby quadrangle.

Hontubby within Le Flore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Hontubby between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,268 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 59 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/incendiarism59
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Debris and open burning22
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural8
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2001Debris and open burning4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 2016Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOuachita National ForestWALKER MTN#5
8 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry20412
8 August 2006Natural10 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20432
7 August 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresOuachita National ForestWALKER MTN #4
31 August 1995Debris and open burning135 acresOuachita National Forestnot named
31 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Le Flore County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hontubby in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2017Thunderstorm WindHontubby-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Forrester2.6 miles18
Petros2.6 miles18
Heavener3.3 miles17
Hodgens Station3.4 miles17
Hodgen3.5 miles17
Loving4.7 miles22
Sugar Creek5.4 miles21
Hiawatha6.0 miles21

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 HontubbyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16736217The 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 1101472. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.