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Platter, Oklahoma

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Colbert census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74753. The Survey maps it on the Platter quadrangle. 159 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 669 feet above sea level.

Platter within Bryan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Platter in 2006, burning about 423 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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
28 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined39 acresChickasaw AgencyJACK RABBIT
23 July 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreChickasaw AgencySMISER
21 July 2006Debris and open burning27 acresChickasaw AgencyBATES FIRE
1 July 2006Natural1.4 acresChickasaw AgencyGOGGINS
28 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined345 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryCALERA RAILROAD
30 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresChickasaw AgencyRAILROAD FIRE
17 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChickasaw AgencySAND CREEK
10 January 2006Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresTalihina AgencyRV

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bryan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Platter: 14 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bryan 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
Pickwick2.8 miles13
Lakeside3.4 miles11
Cartwright4.0 miles13
Colbert4.1 miles13
Sand Point4.2 miles11
Olive4.6 miles8
Staley5.5 miles13
Calera5.9 miles8

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 PlatterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7202519The 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 1096710. 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.