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Murry Spur, Oklahoma

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Spiro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74959. The Survey maps it on the Fort Coffee quadrangle.

Murry Spur within Le Flore County

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

32 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Murry Spur between 1994 and 2011, burning about 1,231 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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/incendiarism13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
9 September 2005Arson/incendiarism75 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20414
28 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2002Arson/incendiarism10 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2004Debris and open burning6.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20364
10 September 2011Arson/incendiarism18 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30475
9 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use40 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20435
9 August 2001Debris and open burning4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Le Flore County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Murry Spur: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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 Shale PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Le Flore 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
Skullyville2.5 miles14
Fort Coffee2.8 miles15
Braden3.0 miles15
Spiro4.0 miles14
Pocola4.2 miles23
Cedar Knobb5.4 miles23
Cedars5.7 miles25
Stony Point6.4 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122549677The 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 1095713. 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.