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Muse, Oklahoma

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Talihina census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74949. It stands on Billy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Muse quadrangle. It stands 745 feet above sea level.

Muse within Le Flore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

179 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Muse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,300 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 62 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined65
Arson/incendiarism62
Debris and open burning17
Natural12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2010Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20224
3 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2011Natural2.0 acresOuachita National ForestPISTOLS FIRING
28 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreTalihina Agencynot named
26 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWichita Mountains National Wildlife RefugeFISH LAKE
21 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOuachita National ForestRANGER
2 September 2010Arson/incendiarism17 acresOuachita National ForestLENOX LOOP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Le Flore County

Storms near this place

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Muse in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 19 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
April 2009HailMuse$50,000Hail as large as baseballs caused widespread roof and window damage near Muse.
April 2011HailMuse$15,000no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindMuse$1,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees and power lines along Highway 63 between Muse and Talihina.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindMuse-Several large tree limbs were blown down by strong thunderstorm wind.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindMuse-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees.
April 1995HailMuse-Severe thunderstorms developed in southeast Oklahoma during the afternoon of April 30th. Strong thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs 2 miles northwest of Page. Baseball size hail fell 1 mile northeast of Talihina, and golfball size hail broke out a windshield 2 miles northwest of Bengal. Golfball size hail also fell at Muse and at Robbers Cave State Park 4 miles northwest of Wilburton, and half dollar size hail fell at Le Flore. Dime to nickel size hail fell at several other locations in southeast Oklahoma.
April 2023HailMuse-no account filed
April 2013HailMuse-no account filed
April 2011HailMuse-no account filed
April 2007HailMuse-no account filed
April 2006HailMuse-no account filed
September 2006HailMuse-no account filed
March 2004HailMuse-no account filed
May 2000HailMuse-no account filed
March 1999HailMuse-no account filed
January 1999HailMuse-no account filed
April 1998HailMuse-no account filed
April 1998HailMuse-no account filed
April 1998Funnel CloudMuse-no account filed
February 1998HailMuse-no account filed
March 1995HailMuse-no account filed
June 1995HailMuse-no account filed
July 1994HailMuse-no account filed

Every storm 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
Lenox3.7 miles16
Big Cedar6.3 miles18
Whitesboro6.6 miles16
Stapp9.3 miles18
Zoe9.7 miles17
Ludlow10.5 miles16
Octavia10.5 miles18
Page11.6 miles19

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 MuseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6940420The 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 1101555. 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.

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.