Paradise View, Oklahoma

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Pryor Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74337. It stands on Brush Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chouteau quadrangle.

Paradise View within Mayes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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.

1896 USGS Pryor quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Pryor quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Chouteau quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1985 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Paradise View between 1992 and 2018, burning about 5,876 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 21 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	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Debris and open burning	7
Smoking	5
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
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
6 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
5 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
10 September 2002	Smoking	3.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
6 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	40308
6 August 2001	Debris and open burning	14 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
4 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30347
26 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	70 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30586
8 July 2006	Debris and open burning	9.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30499

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mayes County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Paradise View: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Mayes 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
Pin Oak Acres	2.0 miles	18
Murphy	3.1 miles	16
Chouteau	3.6 miles	18
Mazie	4.1 miles	16
Cedar Crest	4.4 miles	15
Ballou	5.9 miles	16
Lusta	7.0 miles	18
Sportsman Acres	7.4 miles	18

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 Q122543404

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 1096430. 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.