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Reichert, Oklahoma

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Heavener census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74937. It stands on Britton Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hodgen quadrangle.

Reichert within Le Flore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

151 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Reichert between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,020 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 62 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/incendiarism62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Debris and open burning24
Natural15
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
27 September 2006Naturalunder an acreOuachita National ForestBLUE MTN #1
27 September 2006Natural2.0 acresOuachita National ForestBLUE MTN 3
25 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2012Arson/incendiarism24 acresOuachita National ForestTOWER
18 September 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20362
13 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresOuachita National ForestSUGAR LOAF VISTA
7 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20433
6 August 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry20347

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Le Flore County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reichert in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2015: 1 tornado, 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
May 2011Tornado (EF2)Reichert$100,000A tornado destroyed a mobile home, damaged several permanent homes, snapped dozens of power poles, and snapped or uprooted numerous large trees. Maximum estimated wind in the tornado based on this damage was about 115 mph.
November 2015Thunderstorm WindReichert-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees in the Reichert Community.

Every storm recorded in Le Flore 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
Conser3.7 miles17
Independence3.8 miles17
Glendale4.6 miles17
Hodgen6.4 miles17
Braidwood6.4 miles15
Hodgens Station6.5 miles17
Summerfield6.7 miles15
Wister7.3 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1777529. 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.