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Karns, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the West Canadian census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73040. The Survey maps it on the Fort Reno SW quadrangle.

Karns within Canadian County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Karns between 1997 and 2017, burning about 998 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
16 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreConcho Field OfficeGEARY
12 August 2005Debris and open burning48 acresConcho Field OfficeBARR
5 July 1998Fireworks8.0 acresConcho Field OfficePOWDER
29 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresConcho Field OfficeLONGNECK
20 July 2008Debris and open burning240 acresConcho Field OfficeCACTUS
2 July 1998Arson/incendiarism80 acresConcho Field OfficeLIZARD
18 July 1998Arson/incendiarism20 acresConcho Field OfficeROCK
1 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresConcho Field OfficeWALNUT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Canadian 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 Karns: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Geary Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Canadian County

Storms near this place

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Karns in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 1997: 5 hail, 2 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 1996Thunderstorm WindKarns$1,500no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindKarns-no account filed
June 1997HailKarns-no account filed
June 1996HailKarns-no account filed
February 1995HailKarns-no account filed
July 1995HailKarns-no account filed
April 1994HailKarns-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Canadian 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
Calumet5.8 miles15
Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency (historical)11.4 miles15
Concho12.2 miles13
Niles13.2 miles10
Cedar Lake13.7 miles9
Okarche14.9 miles12
El Reno15.6 miles13
Scott17.1 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100543. 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.

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.