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Tenkiller, Oklahoma

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the East Cherokee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74471. It lies near Negro Jake Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Tailholt quadrangle. 390 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 892 feet above sea level.

Tenkiller within Cherokee County

Population over time

2 figures

Tenkiller fell from 633 to 390 between 2010 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
2010633
2020390-243 (-38%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

535 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 535 fires within 5 miles of Tenkiller between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,348 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 256 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/incendiarism256
Missing data/not specified/undetermined133
Debris and open burning83
Natural16
Equipment and vehicle use12
Recreation and ceremony12
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Smoking7
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2005Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30547
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
9 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2000Misuse of fire by a minor18 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2000Natural1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Tenkiller: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitsClayProducer

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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
Etta2.0 miles18
Carters Landing2.1 miles18
Caney Ridge2.7 miles18
Tailholt2.7 miles18
Barber3.0 miles18
Wildcat Point3.8 miles18
Dry Creek4.4 miles17
Pettit Bay5.4 miles18

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 TenkillerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3313512The 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 1853486. 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.