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Opah, Oklahoma

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Pawhuska census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74056. The Survey maps it on the Nanos quadrangle.

Opah within Osage County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

94 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Opah between 1996 and 2020, burning about 21,927 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 27 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/incendiarism27
Debris and open burning20
Equipment and vehicle use14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural10
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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
30 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresOsage AgencyRONNIE
12 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution46 acresOsage AgencyROBINSON
25 August 2012Natural2.2 acresOsage AgencyJUMP 60
15 August 1996Natural5.0 acresOsage AgencyNICKRABB
14 August 1996Natural10 acresOsage AgencyOAKFIRE
12 August 1996Natural5.0 acresOsage AgencyB.DAVIS
5 July 2012Natural368 acresOsage AgencyTREY
25 July 2012Natural25 acresOsage AgencyJACK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osage 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
Nanos3.4 miles13
Myers5.7 miles12
Pawhuska6.2 miles14
Kiheki6.8 miles14
Bigheart7.8 miles15
Okesa8.8 miles14
Nelagoney9.0 miles14
Pearsonia9.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100702. 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.