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Osage Junction, Oklahoma

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fairfax census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74637. It stands on Salt Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fairfax quadrangle.

Osage Junction within Osage County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

91 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Osage Junction between 1999 and 2020, burning about 14,748 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 11 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
Debris and open burning27
Equipment and vehicle use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Other causes4
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
8 September 2009Naturalunder an acreOsage AgencyBENNIE
5 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOsage AgencyBOWMAN
5 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOsage AgencyWEST MASON
23 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresOsage AgencyHARP
14 September 2011Arson/incendiarism28 acresOsage AgencyNEWALLA
10 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOsage AgencyOLD SCHOOL
4 August 2010Debris and open burning2.5 acresOsage AgencyHOLLOWAY
31 August 2009Other causesunder an acreOsage AgencyMICHAEL'S

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osage County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Osage Junction: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ralston PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Renfro PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working 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
Fairfax2.7 miles13
Gray Horse3.9 miles13
Doga4.6 miles12
Remington7.5 miles13
Little Chief9.9 miles13
Burbank11.0 miles13
Strohm11.4 miles13
Carter Nine14.8 miles13

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 Q122566987The 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 1100707. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.