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Spencerville, Oklahoma

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fort Towson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74756. The Survey maps it on the Spencerville quadrangle. It stands 522 feet above sea level.

Spencerville within Choctaw County

On record in Spencerville

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

220 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 220 fires within 5 miles of Spencerville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,150 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 87 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/incendiarism87
Debris and open burning50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
8 September 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2011Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10535
7 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined170 acresOklahoma Division of ForestrySOBOL
7 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance107 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2005Arson/incendiarism40 acresTalihina AgencySE478
6 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2017Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use32 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Choctaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Spencerville: 5 producers, 3 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Two State Crushing Co Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Choctaw Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
County Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Four Unnamed Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Green Construction Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
H D Youngman Construction Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Choctaw County

Storms near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spencerville in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2021Thunderstorm WindSpencerville-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several trees across the northern part of Choctaw County, near the town of Spencerville.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindSpencerville-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindSpencerville-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down several large tree limbs.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindSpencerville-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew a few trees down.
August 2003HailSpencerville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Choctaw 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
High Hill3.3 miles15
Apple3.3 miles16
Virgil5.2 miles15
Messer7.0 miles15
Sawyer8.9 miles15
West Fort Towson9.4 miles15
Fort Towson9.8 miles15
Fallon10.4 miles9

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 SpencervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7576251The 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 1098356. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.