BlockWesley, Oklahoma
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the North Atoka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74560. It stands on Doyal Creek. The Survey maps it on the Limestone Gap quadrangle.
On record in Wesley
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 1 record
- Waddell's Station Sitelisted 1972
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 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 Mc Alester quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1898 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1909 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Mcalester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Limestone Gap quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
- 1991 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
106 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Wesley between 1992 and 2019, burning about 31,947 acres in total. 6 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 | 31 |
| Debris and open burning | 17 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 170 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 15 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 61 acres | Talihina Agency | SPOT FIRE |
| 14 September 2005 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 10533 |
| 8 August 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 160 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 August 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 10467 |
| 24 August 1999 | Natural | 590 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 August 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 160 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4,900 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 10449 |
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.
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 Wesley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7983830 | 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 1100930. 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.