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Mellette, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Eufaula census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74432. The Survey maps it on the Canadian quadrangle.

Mellette within McIntosh County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

81 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Mellette between 1996 and 2020, burning about 9,717 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 46 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/incendiarism46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1

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
26 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOkmulgee Field OfficeHANNA #13
26 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOkmulgee Field OfficeHANNA #6
26 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOkmulgee Field OfficeHANNA #9
26 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOkmulgee Field OfficeHANNA #3
26 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOkmulgee Field OfficeHANNA #15
26 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOkmulgee Field OfficeHANNA #11
26 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOkmulgee Field OfficeHANNA #8
26 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOkmulgee Field OfficeHANNA #7

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McIntosh 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
Vivian5.0 miles15
Raiford5.1 miles13
Carters Corner5.7 miles15
Eufaula8.6 miles15
Hanna9.3 miles14
Stidham10.5 miles15
Fame10.7 miles15
Vernon11.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100626. 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.