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Russellville, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Quinton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74561. The Survey maps it on the Enterprise quadrangle.

Russellville within Pittsburg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

242 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 242 fires within 5 miles of Russellville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14,928 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 113 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/incendiarism113
Missing data/not specified/undetermined72
Debris and open burning38
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking5
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20413
6 September 2002Arson/incendiarism35 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry20429
28 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry20430
7 August 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTalihina Agency012
6 August 2008Debris and open burning4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20188
5 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use155 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
5 August 2012Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20145

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pittsburg County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Russellville: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pittsburg County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Russellville in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 tornado. 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
June 1998Tornado (F0)Russellville-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Quinton3.9 miles17
Featherston5.8 miles15
Highway 9 Landing6.8 miles14
Carlton Landing6.8 miles13
Longtown7.7 miles13
Canadian Fork8.0 miles13
Blocker9.4 miles17
Bristow Point9.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100804. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.