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Loving, Oklahoma

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Heavener census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74937. It stands on Line Creek. The Survey maps it on the Loving quadrangle.

Loving within Le Flore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

78 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Loving between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,836 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 35 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/incendiarism35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
5 September 2000Natural1,000 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryCOWSKIN CANYON
28 September 2003Debris and open burning8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20236
11 September 1997Natural7.0 acresOuachita National ForestBEECH
9 August 2001Arson/incendiarism40 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
31 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
30 August 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
25 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Le Flore County

Storms near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loving in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2002Thunderstorm WindLoving-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
April 2026HailLoving-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Le Flore 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
Sugar Creek1.6 miles21
Hiawatha1.9 miles21
Forrester2.5 miles18
Hontubby4.7 miles18
Heavener6.6 miles17
Haw Creek6.7 miles18
Petros6.8 miles18
Hodgens Station8.1 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 LovingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16736200The 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 1101524. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.