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Keokuk Falls, Oklahoma

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Shawnee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74864. The Survey maps it on the Prague quadrangle.

Keokuk Falls within Pottawatomie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

43 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Keokuk Falls between 1998 and 2020, burning about 963 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning20
Equipment and vehicle use14
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWewoka AgencyI 40 MILE 206
30 July 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresWewoka AgencyHIGHSCHOOL
19 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWewoka AgencyDIMINION
18 July 2019Smokingunder an acreWewoka AgencyROADSIDE
18 July 2012Debris and open burning6.7 acresWewoka AgencyTIRE TOOL
13 July 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWewoka AgencyS. HARJO
10 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresWewoka AgencyWEEDEATER
29 June 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWewoka AgencyCOMMUNITY CENTER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawatomie County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Keokuk Falls: 15 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Silver, Gold. 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
Paden SouthwestCopper, Silver, GoldPast Producer1925, 1934
Ellis EastCopperOccurrence1933
Ellis WestCopperPast Producer1933
Two Unnamed Sand & Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pottawatomie 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
Centerview2.5 miles10
Garden Grove7.2 miles12
Econtuchka8.1 miles12
Bellemont8.2 miles12
Neal9.5 miles12
Johnson10.9 miles12
Earlsboro13.0 miles12
Aydelotte14.8 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100553. 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.