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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.

Wauhillau within Adair County

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.

Population over time

2 figures

Wauhillau 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.

YearPeople Change
2010345
2020307-38 (-11%)

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

399 since 1992

Regional 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/incendiarism174
Missing data/not specified/undetermined109
Debris and open burning69
Recreation and ceremony12
Natural12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1998Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 1998Smoking3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism255 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 1998Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30486
19 September 2000Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Spade Mountain2.0 miles17
Titanic3.0 miles18
Rocky Mountain3.6 miles18
Stony Point4.2 miles17
Sanders5.6 miles17
England5.9 miles17
Marietta6.2 miles17
West Peavine7.3 miles17

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 WauhillauAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6166575The 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.