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Maple, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Roland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74948. The Survey maps it on the Gans quadrangle.

Maple within Sequoyah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

224 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 224 fires within 5 miles of Maple between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,371 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 77 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/incendiarism77
Missing data/not specified/undetermined68
Debris and open burning48
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking5
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2002Natural1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
9 September 1997Arson/incendiarism15 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 1998Recreation and ceremony12 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2011Arson/incendiarism15 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30489
28 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry30487
22 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30525

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sequoyah County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Maple: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Sequoyah County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maple in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 flash flood. 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
May 2015Flash FloodMaple-Roads in and around Muldrow were flooded and closed.

Every storm recorded in Sequoyah 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
Long2.9 miles14
Blackjack2.9 miles14
Flat Rock3.1 miles14
Akins4.2 miles18
Liberty4.5 miles14
Hanson4.6 miles14
Muldrow4.7 miles14
Remy5.0 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1095123. 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.

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.