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Longtown, Oklahoma

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Quinton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74432. It stands on Longtown Creek. The Survey maps it on the Longtown quadrangle. 2,659 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 614 feet above sea level.

Longtown within Pittsburg County

Population over time

3 figures

Longtown grew from 2,397 to 2,659 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
20002,397
20102,739+342 (+14%)
20202,659-80 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

241 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 241 fires within 5 miles of Longtown between 1992 and 2018, burning about 10,646 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 118 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/incendiarism118
Missing data/not specified/undetermined61
Debris and open burning34
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural7
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
6 September 2002Arson/incendiarism35 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2006Debris and open burning8.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20466
5 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20467
30 September 2004Arson/incendiarism180 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryCOPPERHEAD
28 September 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20483
28 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry20429
28 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry20430
24 September 2004Arson/incendiarism50 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20370

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pittsburg 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
Canadian Fork0.8 miles13
Highway 9 Landing1.1 miles14
Carlton Landing3.3 miles13
Russellville7.7 miles14
Canadian8.9 miles14
Bristow Point10.0 miles17
Sams Point10.2 miles14
Quinton11.3 miles17

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 LongtownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2242974The 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 1094980. 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.