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Kiheki, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Pawhuska census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74002. The Survey maps it on the Nelagoney quadrangle.

Kiheki within Osage County

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

115 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Kiheki between 1999 and 2020, burning about 28,901 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 41 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/incendiarism41
Debris and open burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony3

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
29 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOsage AgencyGOOB
22 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distribution15 acresOsage AgencyWOODSWF
10 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use3.5 acresOsage AgencyBLACK COW
30 August 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOsage AgencyCHIEF
13 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.9 acresOsage AgencyLAWNMOWER
25 July 2012Natural25 acresOsage AgencyJACK
25 July 2001Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresOsage AgencySTRIKE AXE
24 July 2012Natural127 acresOsage AgencyLOST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osage 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
Nelagoney3.5 miles14
Okesa5.1 miles14
Tallant5.4 miles13
Woolaroc5.4 miles13
Pershing6.3 miles13
Pawhuska6.4 miles14
Opah6.8 miles13
Fite8.0 miles13

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 Q122561409The 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 1100555. 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.