Jimtown, Oklahoma

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the West Love census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73430. The Survey maps it on the Marysville quadrangle. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Jimtown within Love County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1902 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1943 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Marysville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

15 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Jimtown between 2006 and 2018, burning about 170 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Chickasaw Agency	PUMP
30 August 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	MARYSVILLE FIRE
29 July 2006	Debris and open burning	24 acres	Chickasaw Agency	REED ROAD
20 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS CR411
27 June 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	40 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FIRE ON CR408
7 April 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SAINT JO VFD
20 April 2014	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FIRE ON CR 408
11 April 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Love 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
Leon	3.4 miles	13
Burneyville	5.3 miles	13
Turner	6.1 miles	13
Rubottom	7.1 miles	13
Dunbar	7.1 miles	13
Pike	7.4 miles	13
Courtney	9.1 miles	10
Belleville	10.2 miles	10

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 Jimtown	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6201724	The 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 1100538. 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.