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Little Rock, Oklahoma

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Locust Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74352. The Survey maps it on the Rose quadrangle. 197 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 902 feet above sea level.

Little Rock within Mayes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

478 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 478 fires within 5 miles of Little Rock between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,260 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 177 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/incendiarism177
Missing data/not specified/undetermined137
Debris and open burning77
Equipment and vehicle use25
Natural24
Recreation and ceremony22
Smoking9
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2000Natural1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2000Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2000Naturalunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1998Smoking3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2015Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2000Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mayes 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
Rose2.8 miles15
Snake Creek3.3 miles15
Locust Grove4.7 miles16
Iron Post5.4 miles16
Boatman5.9 miles15
Salina6.2 miles15
Ballou7.7 miles16
Sportsmen Acres9.1 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 Little RockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q108336781The 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 2805333. 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.