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Anadarko, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Laneville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75667. It stands on Anadarko Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Salem quadrangle. It stands 400 feet above sea level.

Anadarko within Rusk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Anadarko between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,022 acres in total. 6 started naturally. None was 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
Debris and open burning49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Natural6
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
6 September 1995Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRITCHEY MULHOLLE
24 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOCAR JOHNSON
18 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNKNOWN
18 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceUNKNOW
17 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILDLAND FIRE
17 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service14076 CR 417 S

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk 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
Glenfawn1.4 miles11
Freeneytown1.7 miles11
Fairview3.3 miles11
New Salem4.5 miles11
Laneville4.6 miles11
Valley Grove4.9 miles11
McKnight5.5 miles13
Oak Flat5.9 miles11

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 AnadarkoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q116275106The 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 1377936. 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.