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Bloomington, Oklahoma

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Northwest Greer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73673. The Survey maps it on the Plainview quadrangle.

Bloomington within Greer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bloomington: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Greer County

Storms near this place

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloomington in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1999Tornado (F1)Bloomington$40,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greer 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
Jester3.4 miles9
Brinkman6.1 miles9
Plainview6.9 miles9
Willow7.3 miles9
Reed7.8 miles8
Moravia10.3 miles9
Mangum11.2 miles8
Lake Creek11.7 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100217. 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.