Wauhillau, Oklahoma
18 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 stands on Bidding Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tailholt quadrangle. 307 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 820 feet above sea level.
On record in Wauhillau
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Golda's Milllisted 1972 · 0.5 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresWauhillau fell from 345 to 307 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 345 | |
| 2020 | 307 | -38 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 18 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 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 Tailholt quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Stilwell quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
399 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 399 fires within 5 miles of Wauhillau between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,807 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 174 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 | 174 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 109 |
| Debris and open burning | 69 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Natural | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 September 1998 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 255 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 |
| 20 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 30486 |
| 19 September 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spade Mountain | 2.0 miles | 17 | |
| Titanic | 3.0 miles | 18 | |
| Rocky Mountain | 3.6 miles | 18 | |
| Stony Point | 4.2 miles | 17 | |
| Sanders | 5.6 miles | 17 | |
| England | 5.9 miles | 17 | |
| Marietta | 6.2 miles | 17 | |
| West Peavine | 7.3 miles | 17 |
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 Wauhillau | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6166575 | The 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 1100925. 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.








