Black Bear, Oklahoma

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Perry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73077. It stands on Cow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Black Bear quadrangle.

Black Bear within Noble County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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 Enid quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Enid quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Black Bear quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Enid quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Black Bear between 2000 and 2017, burning about 1,080 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
3 March 2017	Arson/incendiarism	78 acres	Pawnee Agency	NEW MOON
3 March 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Pawnee Agency	JOY RIDE
3 October 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,000 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	PERRY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Noble County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Black Bear: 20 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, 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
Perry North-1	Copper	Occurrence	1946
Perry-1	Copper	Occurrence	1946
Unknown Sand Pit	Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sandstone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Producer
Unknown Sandstone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Sandstone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Noble 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
Drace	0.7 miles	9
McMahon	2.2 miles	9
Otoe	3.6 miles	9
Perry	5.1 miles	9
Sumner	5.4 miles	10
Petes Corner	7.1 miles	10
Red Rock	8.5 miles	9
Bills Corner	8.8 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100212. 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.