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Powell, Oklahoma

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the South Marshall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73439. It stands on House Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shay quadrangle.

Powell within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Powell between 1999 and 2018, burning about 1,157 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
26 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresChickasaw AgencyWILLIAMS
12 August 2012Recreation and ceremony106 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDELAWARE BEND FIRE
1 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use343 acresChickasaw AgencyPAGE
2 July 2006Naturalunder an acreChickasaw AgencyBOAT RAMP
22 May 2012Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceJBTHORTON FIRE
13 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined28 acresChickasaw AgencyBURNEY INSTITUTE
9 April 2011Smoking40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDELAWARE BEND
24 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFLYING J RANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Powell: 9 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast 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 Marshall County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Powell in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1998Thunderstorm WindPowell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Lebanon3.0 miles12
Fobb3.2 miles13
Shay4.9 miles13
Willis5.1 miles13
Kingston8.1 miles12
McMillan10.1 miles14
Antioch10.2 miles14
Madill10.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100759. 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.