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Lake Aluma, Oklahoma

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Oklahoma City Southeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73121. The Survey maps it on the Spencer quadrangle. 87 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,145 feet above sea level.

Lake Aluma within Oklahoma County

Population over time

3 figures

Lake Aluma fell from 97 to 87 between 2000 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
200097
201088-9 (-9%)
202087-1 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lake Aluma in 2011, burning about 2,192 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
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
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,192 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry63RD STREET

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oklahoma 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 Lake Aluma: 11 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Dolese Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dolese Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Four Star Sand Co Sand-PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sand Products Dredge and PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Spencer Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknow Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Oklahoma 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
Forest Park2.3 miles17
Spencer3.5 miles17
Witcher4.0 miles17
Britton5.2 miles19
Midway Village5.4 miles18
Green Pastures5.7 miles15
Nichols Hills5.8 miles19
Smith Village6.0 miles18

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 Lake AlumaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3287502The 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 1094463. 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.