Salem, Oklahoma

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.

• 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 Stilwell East quadrangle1:24000
• 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1978 USGS Stilwell quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,600 fires within 5 miles of Salem between 1992 and 2020, burning about 49,617 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 1846 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Honey Hill
• Bell
• Zion
• Cherry Tree
• Fairfield
• Marietta

Every fire recorded in Adair County

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

Every working recorded in Adair County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1853480. 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.