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Kusa, Oklahoma

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Henryetta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74437. The Survey maps it on the Henryetta quadrangle. It stands 656 feet above sea level.

Kusa within Okmulgee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

65 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Kusa between 2002 and 2020, burning about 10,726 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 25 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/incendiarism25
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes2
Natural1
Smoking1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
30 September 2008Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreOkmulgee Field OfficeMONTEZUMA CREEK
15 September 2014Other causesunder an acreOkmulgee Field OfficeGRIMES
1 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined96 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeQUILT BARN
4 August 2008Arson/incendiarism4.1 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeSWEET MAGNOLIA
23 July 2011Fireworks8.0 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeBIRD CREEK
23 July 2011Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeWILSON 2
12 July 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreDeep Fork National Wildlife RefugeCOALTON#2
12 July 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreDeep Fork National Wildlife RefugeCOALTON#1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Okmulgee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Kusa: 8 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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 Shale PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Okmulgee County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kusa in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 flash flood. 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
July 2015Flash FloodKusa-New Lake Road was flooded near Lake Henryetta.

Every storm recorded in Okmulgee 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
Sunrise0.6 miles16
Gulftown0.9 miles16
Dewar1.1 miles16
Dighton2.1 miles16
Spelter City2.2 miles16
Henryetta3.1 miles16
Coalton3.4 miles16
Salem4.5 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.

Wikipedia article on KusaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q107087744The 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 1100557. 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.