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Iron Post, Oklahoma

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Locust Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74352. The Survey maps it on the Locust Grove quadrangle. 65 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Iron Post within Mayes County

Population over time

2 figures

Iron Post fell from 92 to 65 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201092
202065-27 (-29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

384 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 384 fires within 5 miles of Iron Post between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,567 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 134 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/incendiarism134
Missing data/not specified/undetermined113
Debris and open burning73
Recreation and ceremony19
Equipment and vehicle use17
Smoking13
Natural11
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 1998Smoking13 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1998Smoking3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2015Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2000Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30456
2 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance7.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2000Debris and open burning14 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mayes County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Iron Post: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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
Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mayes 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
Snake Creek2.6 miles15
Ballou2.7 miles16
Locust Grove3.2 miles16
Little Rock5.4 miles15
Murphy5.5 miles16
Cedar Crest5.6 miles15
Pin Oak Acres7.1 miles18
Rose7.3 miles15

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 Iron PostAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2855216The 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 1853471. 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.