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Sacred Heart, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Wanette-Asher census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74849. The Survey maps it on the Saint Louis quadrangle.

Sacred Heart within Pottawatomie County

On record in Sacred Heart

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

23 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Sacred Heart between 1996 and 2020, burning about 888 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1

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
3 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresWewoka AgencyNEW HOLLAND
12 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined120 acresWewoka AgencyRODGERS
11 April 2003Debris and open burning8.0 acresSouthern Plains Regional OfficeSAMI
7 March 2019Debris and open burning3.2 acresWewoka AgencyCOSAR 2
7 March 2019Debris and open burning61 acresWewoka AgencyCOSAR
24 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresChickasaw AgencyGREENHOUSE
20 March 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWewoka AgencyCEDAR CREEK
11 March 2014Arson/incendiarism71 acresWewoka AgencyFRANK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawatomie County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Sacred Heart: 22 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. 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
Konawa SouthwestCopperPast Producer1929
Corff Sand & Gravel Co Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Corff Sand & Gravel Co Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Corff Sand and Gravel Co Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Corff Sand and Gravel Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pottawatomie 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
Saint Louis5.5 miles14
Asher6.1 miles11
Avoca6.5 miles15
Ellaville6.9 miles14
Pearson7.6 miles15
Romulus10.0 miles15
Anderson11.0 miles15
Chisney11.8 miles14

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 Sacred HeartAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7397094The 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 1100806. 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.