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Miller, Oklahoma

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Antlers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74557. It stands on Davenport Creek. The Survey maps it on the Moyers quadrangle.

Miller within Pushmataha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

214 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 214 fires within 5 miles of Miller between 1992 and 2020, burning about 20,226 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 72 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/incendiarism72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined56
Debris and open burning38
Equipment and vehicle use16
Natural16
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking2
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
4 September 2010Arson/incendiarism37 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10219
30 September 2005Debris and open burning15 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10570
30 September 2005Arson/incendiarism40 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10569
27 September 2006Naturalunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry10548
24 September 2002Natural1.1 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10349
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pushmataha County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Miller: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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

Every working recorded in Pushmataha County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Miller in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2022: 1 tornado, 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
September 2006Tornado (F0)Miller$12,000A tornado produced minor damage to several homes and snapped trees.
June 2022HailMiller-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pushmataha 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
Moyers4.9 miles17
Kellond6.6 miles17
Kosoma7.3 miles16
Antlers8.9 miles16
Jumbo8.9 miles18
Wadena9.8 miles15
Big Rocks10.9 miles16
Eubanks11.2 miles15

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 MillerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6859026The 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 1100638. 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.