Plunketville, Oklahoma

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the North McCurtain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74963. The Survey maps it on the Cove quadrangle.

Plunketville within McCurtain County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1913 USGS De Queen quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1950 USGS Mcalester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Cove quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1962 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Cove quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS De Queen quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

313 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 313 fires within 5 miles of Plunketville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,366 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 133 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	133
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	122
Debris and open burning	26
Natural	12
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	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 2010	Arson/incendiarism	170 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	10240
6 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	10239
6 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	10237
6 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	10238
6 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	10236
4 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	10457
28 September 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	58 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
22 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCurtain 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
Watson	4.0 miles	16
Beachton	6.7 miles	16
Nani-chito	8.4 miles	16
Smithville	9.0 miles	16
Sherwood	16.4 miles	19
Mount Herman	18.8 miles	19
Bethel	18.9 miles	19
Stephens Gap	21.0 miles	16

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 Q122552287

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 1100753. 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.