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Ketchum, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Vinita East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74349. The Survey maps it on the Ketchum quadrangle. 471 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 771 feet above sea level.

Ketchum within Craig County

Population over time

2 figures

Ketchum grew from 442 to 471 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
2010442
2020471+29 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Ketchum between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,715 acres in total. None started naturally. 21 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/incendiarism21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
6 August 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30414
8 July 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry30273B
6 July 2012Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30273
21 July 2012Arson/incendiarism10 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30315
3 May 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2002Arson/incendiarism55 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Craig County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Ketchum: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Craig County

Storms near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ketchum in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 1997: 3 hail, 3 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
June 1997Thunderstorm WindKetchum$100no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindKetchum-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindKetchum-no account filed
July 1996HailKetchum-no account filed
March 1996HailKetchum-no account filed
June 1995HailKetchum-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Craig 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
Okoee3.8 miles14
Success6.1 miles14
Cornatzar9.1 miles14
Todd9.9 miles14
Vinita10.5 miles14
Big Cabin10.5 miles14
Kelso13.3 miles14
White Oak14.3 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 KetchumAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2057249The 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 1094351. 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.