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Trestle Ford, Oklahoma

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Cameron census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74953. It stands on Wilson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bates quadrangle.

Trestle Ford within Le Flore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Trestle Ford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,284 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 42 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/incendiarism42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking1

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
5 September 2000Natural1,000 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryCOWSKIN CANYON
19 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,800 acresOklahoma Division of ForestrySUGARLOAF
13 September 2017Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry10337
30 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use17 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2000Arson/incendiarism15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20189
24 August 1999Smoking8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Le Flore 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 Trestle Ford: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Chandler Clay MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Le Flore 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
Monroe1.9 miles17
Gilmore4.8 miles16
Hiawatha6.9 miles21
Sugar Creek7.1 miles21
Hill7.1 miles23
Neff8.1 miles16
Forest Hill8.6 miles17
Forrester8.6 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.

Wikidata item Q122540647The 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 1101700. 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.