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Kennady, Oklahoma

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Wister census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74966. It stands on Little Mountain Creek. The Survey maps it on the Potato Peaks quadrangle.

Kennady within Le Flore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

143 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Kennady between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,739 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 58 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/incendiarism58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined50
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use40 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2002Arson/incendiarism15 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2005Arson/incendiarism15 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20401
29 September 2002Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2002Debris and open burning90 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2017Arson/incendiarism301 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2002Debris and open burning4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot 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 Kennady: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Le Flore County

Storms near this place

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kennady in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 hail. 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
January 1999HailKennady-no account filed

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
Victor3.6 miles15
Wister3.8 miles17
Cavanal4.1 miles17
Yerby4.5 miles16
Braidwood4.9 miles15
Smacker5.1 miles16
Caston5.5 miles15
Sorrels6.1 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122540239The 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 1100550. 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.