Paw Paw, Oklahoma

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Muldrow census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74948. The Survey maps it on the Fort Coffee quadrangle.

Paw Paw within Sequoyah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1900 USGS Sallisaw quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1911 USGS Sallisaw quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Fort Coffee quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Fort Coffee quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

41 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Paw Paw between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,120 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Debris and open burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	4

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
4 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
18 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
10 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	18 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30475
9 August 2001	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
9 August 1998	Recreation and ceremony	22 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
30 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20463

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sequoyah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Paw Paw: 10 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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 Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Sequoyah County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paw Paw in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2021	Tornado (EF1)	Paw Paw	$30,000	This is the first segment of a four segment tornado. The tornado developed southeast of Muldrow, where trees were uprooted. It moved northeast uprooting trees, toppling multiple center-pivot irrigation systems, and snapping power poles to near Moffett. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in this segment of the tornado was 95 to 105 mph. The tornado continued into Crawford County, Arkansas.

Every storm recorded in Sequoyah 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
Cottonwood	3.1 miles	15
Shady Grove	4.0 miles	14
Lone Oak	4.4 miles	14
Moffett	5.3 miles	29
West Fort Smith	5.9 miles	29
Baldridge	6.0 miles	15
Roland	6.1 miles	14
Redland	6.2 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100724. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.