Richville, Oklahoma

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the McAlester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74501. It stands on Buck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Krebs quadrangle.

Richville within Pittsburg 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.

1898 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1898 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1909 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1950 USGS Mcalester quadrangle1:250000, 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
1967 USGS Krebs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1991 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Richville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 6,182 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 43 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	43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	37
Debris and open burning	28
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	4
Natural	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
3 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
28 September 2002	Natural	1.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
27 September 2002	Smoking	13 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
26 September 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20238
2 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20425
14 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20435
9 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Talihina Agency	ALDERSON`

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pittsburg 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
Carbon	2.0 miles	17
Krebs	2.3 miles	17
Alderson	2.8 miles	17
Bache	3.3 miles	17
North McAlester	4.7 miles	18
McAlester	5.1 miles	18
Dow	5.8 miles	18
Mekko	6.0 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100791. 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.