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Rocky Mountain, Oklahoma

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Stilwell West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74960. It lies near Hungry Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Tailholt quadrangle. 471 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 997 feet above sea level.

Rocky Mountain within Adair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

510 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 510 fires within 5 miles of Rocky Mountain between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18,136 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 245 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/incendiarism245
Missing data/not specified/undetermined122
Debris and open burning83
Recreation and ceremony19
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural12
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 1998Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30486
18 September 2000Smoking13 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1998Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1998Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adair 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
Wauhillau3.6 miles18
Lyons4.8 miles17
Stony Point4.8 miles17
Spade Mountain5.1 miles17
Blanch5.6 miles17
Marietta6.4 miles17
Titanic6.6 miles18
Zion7.2 miles17

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 MountainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2756329The 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 1100797. 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.