BlockLittle Ponderosa, Oklahoma
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the North Beaver census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73950. The Survey maps it on the Little Ponderosa quadrangle. 438 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,802 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Perryton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Perryton quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Little Ponderosa quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Beaver quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Little Ponderosa between 2007 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 April 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Seward County | not named |
| 4 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Seward County | 101 |
| 7 February 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 26 |
| 26 February 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 75 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 January 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
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.
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 Little Ponderosa | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q108280912 | The 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 1094801. 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.