Snake Creek, Oklahoma
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Locust Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74352. It stands on Little Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rose quadrangle. 255 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 932 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresSnake Creek fell from 298 to 255 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 298 | |
| 2010 | 257 | -41 (-14%) |
| 2020 | 255 | -2 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1896 USGS Pryor quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Pryor quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Rose quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
460 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 460 fires within 5 miles of Snake Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,405 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 151 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 | 151 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 138 |
| Debris and open burning | 82 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 26 |
| Natural | 24 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 21 |
| Smoking | 12 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
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 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 September 2000 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 September 1998 | Smoking | 13 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 September 1998 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 September 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 21 September 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Snake Creek: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Shale Pit | Clay | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iron Post | 2.6 miles | 16 | |
| Little Rock | 3.3 miles | 15 | |
| Locust Grove | 4.0 miles | 16 | |
| Rose | 4.7 miles | 15 | |
| Ballou | 5.3 miles | 16 | |
| Boatman | 7.3 miles | 15 | |
| Murphy | 8.0 miles | 16 | |
| Cedar Crest | 8.2 miles | 15 |
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 Snake Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2541734 | 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 1853483. 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.






