BlockWest Fort Towson, Oklahoma
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fort Towson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74735. It stands on Fort Towson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Towson quadrangle.
On record in West Fort Towson
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.
- Willie W. Wilson Houselisted 1982 · 0.9 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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.
- 1901 USGS Alikchi quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1950 USGS Mcalester quadrangle1:250000, 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
- 1971 USGS Fort Towson quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Antlers quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
59 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of West Fort Towson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,770 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 28 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 | 28 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 26 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 28 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 10359 |
| 23 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 410 |
| 3 August 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 10267 |
| 29 August 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 10205 |
| 29 August 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 10207 |
| 26 August 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 56 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 10523 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122564659 | 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 1099564. 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.