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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 .
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).
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]
(Reuters) -An evacuation order for the Canadian town of Osoyoos and its surrounding district has been issued due to an out-of-control wildfire that has crossed the border from the U.S. state of ...
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 fire started five miles (8.0 km) west of the city along Highway 36 and westerly winds of up to 30 mph (48 km/h) spread the flames into town burning a total of 7,665 acres (31 km 2) of land. The fire spared the near-century-old house (now a museum) of Robert E. Howard, author of the Conan the Barbarian books.
At the time of its founding, Canadian was located in Tobucksy County, Choctaw Nation, in the Indian Territory. [4] The settlement was originally called South Canadian, taking its name from the nearby South Fork of the Canadian River, now called Gaines Creek. A post office was established at South Canadian, Indian Territory on May 29, 1873.
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 ...