Moon, Oklahoma

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Southeast McCurtain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74740. The Survey maps it on the Bokhoma quadrangle.

Moon within McCurtain County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1950 USGS Bokhoma quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Bokhoma quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

240 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 240 fires within 5 miles of Moon between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,856 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 120 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/incendiarism	120
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	38
Natural	28
Debris and open burning	26
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	10485
6 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Talihina Agency	CLAMPETT#2
6 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
6 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
5 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
5 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
3 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Ouachita National Forest	MIDNIGHT
29 September 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	7.5 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCurtain 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bokhoma	0.6 miles	10
America	1.4 miles	10
Haworth	4.6 miles	10
Shinewell	5.0 miles	10
Eastport	5.3 miles	11
Goodwater	5.9 miles	10
Tom	6.1 miles	10
Pleasant Hill	6.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1101548. 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.