Stony Point, Oklahoma

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Stilwell West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74960. It sits by Stony Point. The Survey maps it on the Stilwell West quadrangle.

Stony Point within Adair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

1898 USGS Tahlequah quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Tahlequah quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
1905 USGS Tahlequah quadrangle1:125000
1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Stilwell West quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Stilwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

379 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 379 fires within 5 miles of Stony Point between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,771 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 156 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	156
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	94
Debris and open burning	81
Natural	16
Recreation and ceremony	11
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Smoking	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
6 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30461
4 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
4 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
3 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
22 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
21 September 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
19 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
18 September 2000	Smoking	13 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adair 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Marietta	2.0 miles	17
England	2.9 miles	17
Spade Mountain	3.4 miles	17
West Peavine	4.0 miles	17
Stilwell	4.2 miles	17
Wauhillau	4.2 miles	18
Fairfield	4.4 miles	17
Blanch	4.7 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100857. 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.