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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.

Snake Creek within Mayes County

Population over time

3 figures

Snake 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.

YearPeople Change
2000298
2010257-41 (-14%)
2020255-2 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

460 since 1992

Regional 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/incendiarism151
Missing data/not specified/undetermined138
Debris and open burning82
Equipment and vehicle use26
Natural24
Recreation and ceremony21
Smoking12
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2000Natural1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 1998Smoking13 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2000Naturalunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1998Smoking3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2015Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2000Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mayes County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mayes 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
Iron Post2.6 miles16
Little Rock3.3 miles15
Locust Grove4.0 miles16
Rose4.7 miles15
Ballou5.3 miles16
Boatman7.3 miles15
Murphy8.0 miles16
Cedar Crest8.2 miles15

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 CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2541734The 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.