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Zion, Oklahoma

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Stilwell East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74960. It lies near Taylor Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Stilwell West quadrangle. 30 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,030 feet above sea level.

Zion within Adair County

Population over time

2 figures

Zion fell from 41 to 30 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
201041
202030-11 (-27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

1,111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,111 fires within 5 miles of Zion between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14,480 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 716 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/incendiarism716
Missing data/not specified/undetermined168
Debris and open burning148
Smoking20
Natural16
Recreation and ceremony15
Equipment and vehicle use12
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30470
7 September 2001Debris and open burning4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry30461
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCherokee Nation Tribe30513A
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCherokee Nation TribeBELL SCHOOL 3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adair County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Zion: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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
Blanch1.6 miles17
Stilwell2.2 miles17
Cherry Tree2.9 miles18
Salem3.5 miles17
Honey Hill3.9 miles17
Marietta4.4 miles17
Lyons4.6 miles17
Fairfield4.6 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 ZionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2362411The 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 1100959. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.