Mount Herman, Oklahoma

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the North McCurtain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74728. It stands on Little Pine Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bethel quadrangle.

Mount Herman within McCurtain County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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.

1902 USGS Lukfata quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1950 USGS Mcalester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Bethel quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1962 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Bethel quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS De Queen quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

366 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 366 fires within 5 miles of Mount Herman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,149 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 179 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	179
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	102
Debris and open burning	32
Equipment and vehicle use	24
Natural	16
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
7 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
7 September 2000	Smoking	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
6 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ouachita National Forest	CARTER 2
6 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ouachita National Forest	CARTER 1
6 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
5 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	WATERLINE
5 September 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	CARTER MTN

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
Sherwood	2.6 miles	19
Bethel	3.9 miles	19
Battiest	8.4 miles	19
Hochatown	11.1 miles	15
Stephens Gap	11.9 miles	16
Nani-chito	12.0 miles	16
Pickens	12.2 miles	15
Clebit	12.4 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1095566. 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.