BlockNew Spring Place, Oklahoma
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It lies in ZIP code area 74457. The Survey maps it on the Proctor quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1898 USGS Tahlequah quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Tahlequah quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
- 1905 USGS Tahlequah quadrangle1:125000
- 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Proctor quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Stilwell quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
307 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 307 fires within 5 miles of New Spring Place (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17,067 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 125 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 | 125 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 87 |
| Debris and open burning | 57 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 30464 |
| 5 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 200 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 30474 |
| 4 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 30465 |
| 4 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 30468 |
| 3 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 255 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 10 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 1 September 2000 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 August 2012 | Natural | 15 acres | Cherokee Nation Tribe | BAD RIDGE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2437430. 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.