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Pickett, Oklahoma

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Northwest Pontotoc census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74820. The Survey maps it on the Vanoss quadrangle. 774 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 997 feet above sea level.

Pickett within Pontotoc County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

41 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Pickett between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,693 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
20 September 2007Debris and open burning11 acresChickasaw AgencyHENDERSON
12 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresChickasaw AgencyBAILER
1 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use12 acresChickasaw AgencyFALLOUT #2
9 July 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreChickasaw AgencyJOHN DEERE
29 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresChickasaw AgencyCASSADY
28 July 2008Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChickasaw AgencySANDY 3540
26 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresChickasaw AgencyQUARRY
25 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresChickasaw Agency1570

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pontotoc County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Pickett: 33 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium. 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
Lawrence Cement PlantClay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, CalciumProducer
Ada WestCopperOccurrence1973
Lewis SpringCopperOccurrence1929
Four Unnamed Sand & Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Three Unnamed Sand & Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Three Unnamed Sand & Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Three Unnamed Sand & Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pontotoc County

Storms near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pickett in 1 storm report in 2005: 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2005HailPickett-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pontotoc 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
Center2.5 miles12
Union Hill2.9 miles12
Latta4.4 miles12
Bebee4.4 miles12
Gaar Corner4.7 miles12
Ada5.1 miles16
Vanoss5.3 miles12
Oil Center6.5 miles12

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 PickettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q108364992The 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 1096620. 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.