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Latta, Oklahoma

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Ada census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74820. The Survey maps it on the Ahloso quadrangle. 1,465 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,027 feet above sea level.

Latta within Pontotoc County

Population over time

2 figures

Latta grew from 1,172 to 1,465 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
20101,172
20201,465+293 (+25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

59 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Latta between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,757 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking1
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
20 September 2007Debris and open burning11 acresChickasaw AgencyHENDERSON
6 August 2012Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChickasaw AgencyELECTRIC BOX
3 August 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreChickasaw AgencyOLD TRACTOR
2 August 2003Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresChickasaw AgencyE.HWY1 FIR
9 July 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreChickasaw AgencyJOHN DEERE
29 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.4 acresChickasaw AgencyWOLFE LANE
28 July 2008Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChickasaw AgencySANDY 3540
26 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresChickasaw AgencyQUARRY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pontotoc County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 42 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Latta: 36 past producers, 4 producers, 2 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Copper, 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
Ada Qy & PltStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lawrence Cement PlantClay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, CalciumProducer
Ada WestCopperOccurrence1973
Lewis SpringCopperOccurrence1929
Superior Clay Products Shale PitClayProducer
Two Unnamed Shale PitsClayProducer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer
Four Unnamed Sand & Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pontotoc 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
Ada2.4 miles16
Ahloso3.7 miles12
Pickett4.4 miles12
Lawrence4.4 miles12
Hird5.2 miles16
Homer5.3 miles13
Union Hill6.1 miles12
Fitzhugh6.7 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.

Wikipedia article on LattaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q60628495The 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 1094521. 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.