BlockOil City, Oklahoma
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Ardmore North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73463. The Survey maps it on the Fox quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 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.
- 1901 USGS Ardmore quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1918 USGS Ardmore quadrangle1:125000
- 1957 USGS Ardmore quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Ardmore quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS Fox quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Ardmore quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
4 photographs, 1937Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1937. Library of Congress
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1937. Library of Congress
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1937. Library of Congress
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1937. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
17 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Oil City between 2000 and 2017, burning about 3,778 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | GRAHAM |
| 9 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 150 acres | Chickasaw Agency | CATTLEMEN |
| 9 August 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 423 acres | Chickasaw Agency | SNEED |
| 4 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Chickasaw Agency | MEULLER FIRE |
| 31 August 2006 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Chickasaw Agency | EXXON |
| 8 April 2005 | Natural | 1,000 acres | Chickasaw Agency | CLEMSCOTT |
| 17 April 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 525 acres | Chickasaw Agency | MIDWAY |
| 16 April 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 273 acres | Chickasaw Agency | DILLARD |
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.
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 Oil City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7081304 | 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 1100687. 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.