Redland, Oklahoma

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Southeast McCurtain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74745. The Survey maps it on the Shults quadrangle.

Redland within McCurtain 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.

1950 USGS Shults quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Shults quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Texarkana quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Idabel quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

275 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 275 fires within 5 miles of Redland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,625 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 148 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	148
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	54
Debris and open burning	36
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Natural	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2

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
9 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ouachita National Forest	THOMAS CHAPEL
8 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	10545
8 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Talihina Agency	0441
7 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Little River National Wildlife Refuge	404 DITCH
6 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	10531
5 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	10226
4 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	51 acres	Little River National Wildlife Refuge	DRY HOLE #2
4 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	62 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	10466

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCurtain County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Redland in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2026: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2015	Tornado (EF0)	Redland	$150,000	An NWS Storm Survey across McCurtain County, Oklahoma determined that damage east of Idabel was consistent with that of a tornado. An EF0 tornado touched down in the Redland community. Ten chicken houses were damaged...one of which was completely destroyed.
April 2026	Hail	Redland	-	Hail ranging from golf ball to hen egg size reported near the Redland community northeast of Idabel.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Redland	-	A pole was snapped in half with a power line down on Highway 3 east of Pipe Springs Road. A tree was also blown down on Living Land Road between Idabel and Haworth.

Every storm 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
Shults	3.6 miles	11
Haworth	4.5 miles	10
Kullituklo	4.8 miles	10
Lukfata (historical)	4.9 miles	11
Goodwater	5.3 miles	10
Hill Chapel	6.6 miles	11
Bokhoma	7.7 miles	10
Crossroads	8.0 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1101619. 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.

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.