Rocky Ford, Oklahoma
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Kansas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74364. The Survey maps it on the Leach quadrangle. 283 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,112 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRocky Ford grew from 61 to 283 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 61 | |
| 2020 | 283 | +222 (+364%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1899 USGS Siloam Springs quadrangle1:125000
- 1903 USGS Siloam Springs quadrangle1:125000
- 1904 USGS Siloam Springs quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1954 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Leach quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
222 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 222 fires within 5 miles of Rocky Ford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,730 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 60 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/undetermined | 102 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 60 |
| Debris and open burning | 30 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 12 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 10 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 30476 |
| 3 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 30355 |
| 25 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 30415 |
| 11 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 30363 |
| 11 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Cherokee Nation Tribe | ANDERSON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leach | 2.1 miles | 19 | |
| Oaks | 3.1 miles | 18 | |
| Twin Oaks | 3.8 miles | 18 | |
| Kansas | 6.3 miles | 18 | |
| Flint Creek | 9.0 miles | 19 | |
| Bull Hollow | 9.5 miles | 19 | |
| Cloud Creek | 9.8 miles | 19 | |
| Kenwood | 10.4 miles | 19 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Rocky Ford | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3313252 | 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 1853478. 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.







