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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 18 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.
- 1898 USGS Tahlequah quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Tahlequah quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
- 1905 USGS Tahlequah quadrangle1:125000
- 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Tailholt quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Stilwell quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
510 since 1992Regional 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/incendiarism | 245 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 122 |
| Debris and open burning | 83 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Natural | 12 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 30486 |
| 18 September 2000 | Smoking | 13 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 September 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 10 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 10 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wauhillau | 3.6 miles | 18 | |
| Lyons | 4.8 miles | 17 | |
| Stony Point | 4.8 miles | 17 | |
| Spade Mountain | 5.1 miles | 17 | |
| Blanch | 5.6 miles | 17 | |
| Marietta | 6.4 miles | 17 | |
| Titanic | 6.6 miles | 18 | |
| Zion | 7.2 miles | 17 |
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 Mountain | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2756329 | 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 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.








