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McCurtain, Oklahoma

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the McCurtain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74944. The Survey maps it on the McCurtain quadrangle. 355 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 581 feet above sea level.

McCurtain within Haskell County

Population over time

2 figures

McCurtain fell from 516 to 355 between 2010 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
2010516
2020355-161 (-31%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

241 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 241 fires within 5 miles of McCurtain between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,156 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 103 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/incendiarism103
Missing data/not specified/undetermined81
Debris and open burning35
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2010Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20227
4 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20426
4 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry20260
24 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2006Arson/incendiarism16 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20478
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20424
13 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Haskell County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of McCurtain: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Haskell County

Storms near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McCurtain in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 1995HailMcCurtain-no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindMcCurtain-no account filed
June 1995HailMcCurtain-no account filed
November 1994Thunderstorm WindMcCurtain-no account filed
March 1993HailMcCurtain-no account filed
April 1993HailMcCurtain-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Haskell 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
Panther1.8 miles15
Ironbridge6.2 miles15
Lafayette7.2 miles14
Keota7.8 miles14
Lequire7.9 miles15
Cartersville8.7 miles16
Sans Bois9.9 miles13
Stigler10.8 miles14

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 McCurtainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2779864The 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 1095225. 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.