Nani-chito, Oklahoma

16 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 74957. It stands on Roosevelt Creek. The Survey maps it on the Smithville quadrangle.

Nani-chito within McCurtain 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.

1902 USGS Lukfata quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1950 USGS Mcalester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Smithville quadrangle1:62500, 3 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
1981 USGS Smithville quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS De Queen quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

532 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 532 fires within 5 miles of Nani-chito between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,317 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 287 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	287
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	140
Debris and open burning	35
Natural	27
Recreation and ceremony	15
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Smoking	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	10550
9 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
8 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	10487
7 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	BUFFALO CREEK #2
7 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Ouachita National Forest	BUFFALO CREEK #1
6 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Talihina Agency	SE477
5 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
5 September 2000	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Ouachita National Forest	SMITHVILLE

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
Smithville	3.1 miles	16
Watson	4.9 miles	16
Beachton	6.4 miles	16
Plunketville	8.4 miles	16
Sherwood	9.4 miles	19
Bethel	11.0 miles	19
Mount Herman	12.0 miles	19
Battiest	14.9 miles	19

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 Q122571671

The 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 1100657. 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.