BlockStar, Oklahoma
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Hartshorne-Haileyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74560. The Survey maps it on the Counts quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 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.
- 1898 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1898 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1909 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Mcalester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Counts quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1991 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
1 photograph, 1938Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
![Family walking on highway, five children. Started from Idabel, Oklahoma. Bound for Krebs, Oklahoma. Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. In 1936 the father farmed on thirds and fourths at Eagleton, McCurtain County, Oklahoma. Was taken sick with pneumonia and lost farm. Unable to get work on Work Prjects [i.e. Projects] Administration and refused county relief in county of fifteen years residence because of temporary residence in another county after his illness](assets/locph_2017770606.jpg)
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1938. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
256 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 256 fires within 5 miles of Star between 1992 and 2020, burning about 68,434 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 111 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 | 111 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 85 |
| Debris and open burning | 31 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
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 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20415 |
| 9 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.1 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20409 |
| 5 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 26 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 73 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20237 |
| 15 September 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 1 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 10311 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100850. 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.