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The Smokehouse Creek Fire was a record-breaking wildfire affecting the northeastern Texas panhandle and western Oklahoma that started on February 26, 2024. The fire affected numerous communities in Hemphill and Roberts counties, including the town of Canadian .
Burke City is a ghost town in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, United States. It existed from 1901 to 1903. [1] The town was destroyed after it being flooded by the North Canadian River. [2] The town was started by Tom and Wally McGee, two men from Chickasaw Nation forming a partnership with John
1908 – A fire destroyed most of the town of Fernie, British Columbia. 1908 – The greater part of the city of Trois-Rivières was destroyed by a fire; most of the city's original buildings, many dating to the French colonial years, were destroyed. 1909 – Phoenix, British Columbia, destroyed by fire, then rebuilt. [citation needed]
Berry, Shelley, Small Towns, Ghost Memories of Oklahoma: A Photographic Narrative of Hamlets and Villages Throughout Oklahoma's Seventy-seven Counties (Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning Company Publishers, 2004). Blake Gumprecht, "A Saloon On Every Corner: Whiskey Towns of Oklahoma Territory, 1889-1907," The Chronicles of Oklahoma 74 (Summer 1996).
The largest active Oklahoma fire is the Rush Fire which has burned more than 12,000 acres in the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge, about 70 miles southwest of Oklahoma City. The Rush ...
The four men grew up together in Okmulgee, a city that Megan Gordon, Billy Chastain's widow, described as a "very small town" — a place where "everyone's parents knows everyone's parents ...
Nearly half of city's housing destroyed. Great Fire of Quebec City: Quebec City: Province of Canada : Oct 1866: $3 million: 2,500 [2] Saguenay Fire: Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec Quebec: May 1870: 7: 15,000 hectares (37,000 acres) Nearly 1/3 of the population lost everything. Fire in Quebec City: Quebec City Quebec: May 1876: $800,000: 700 ...
Picher, Oklahoma was incorporated in 1918 after ore was discovered. All that remains in the ghost town are empty buildings and piles of toxic waste. Picher, Oklahoma was incorporated in 1918 after ...