Turkey Ford, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It lies in ZIP code area 74344. The Survey maps it on the Cayuga quadrangle.

Turkey Ford within Ottawa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1907 USGS Wyandotte quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1909 USGS Wyandotte quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Tulsa quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Cayuga quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Neosho quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Turkey Ford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,906 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 45 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	45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	36
Debris and open burning	34
Natural	26
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Smoking	3
Other causes	3

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
5 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
4 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Miami Agency	DUNN
30 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
16 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Miami Agency	WINNEY
8 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	580 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30434
8 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30563
8 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30561
24 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa 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
Kellyville	6.4 miles	14
Ogeechee	8.4 miles	16
Wyandotte	8.7 miles	14
Fairland	9.1 miles	16
Moreville	9.1 miles	16
Oseuma	10.2 miles	13
West Seneca	12.7 miles	16
Afton	13.2 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100898. 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.