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Simms, Oklahoma

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Porum census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74455. The Survey maps it on the Holt Mountain quadrangle. 261 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Simms within Muskogee County

Population over time

3 figures

Simms fell from 295 to 261 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000295
2010325+30 (+10%)
2020261-64 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

7 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Simms between 2003 and 2017, burning about 3,565 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
7 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20167
6 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20166
5 July 2012Debris and open burning6.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20102
5 February 2003Arson/incendiarism39 acresSequoyah National Wildlife RefugePOSSUM HOLLOW-1
10 February 2017Arson/incendiarism250 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
20 November 2005Arson/incendiarism3,220 acresCherokee Nation TribeHOLT MTN
1 January 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresSequoyah National Wildlife RefugePOSSUM HOLLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskogee 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
Porum4.0 miles14
Briartown6.4 miles15
Warner9.5 miles15
Webbers Falls9.5 miles19
McLain13.1 miles19
Martin13.9 miles19
Hy 10 Landing16.0 miles19
Keefton16.0 miles19

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 SimmsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2005382The 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 2413672. 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.