Belva, Oklahoma

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Mooreland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73852. The Survey maps it on the Belva quadrangle.

Belva within Woodward County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1955 USGS Woodward quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Woodward quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1969 USGS Belva quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Fairview quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Photographs

8 of 10 photographs shown, 1943

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Belva, Oklahoma. Helper engine coming to help push the train on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad as far as Curtis, Oklahoma
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress

Curtis, Oklahoma. Helper engine leaving an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe train early in the morning after having helped push it from Belva, Oklahoma
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress

Every photograph of Woodward County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Belva: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Taylor Prospect	Copper	Occurrence	1921
Two Unnamed Sand Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Woodward County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belva in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 1999: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Belva	$10	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Belva	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Woodward 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Quinlan	4.8 miles	9
Curtis	9.8 miles	8
Cedardale	12.5 miles	8
Mooreland	12.9 miles	8
Alston	17.3 miles	8
Mutual	21.1 miles	8
Richmond	21.6 miles	8
Woodward	22.5 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100204. 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.

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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.