Bucher, Oklahoma

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Watonga census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73772. The Survey maps it on the Hitchcock quadrangle.

Bucher within Blaine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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 Clinton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Hitchcock quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Watonga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Bucher between 1997 and 2018, burning about 669 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	2

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 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Concho Field Office	GARRIOTT
23 June 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Concho Field Office	RINEHEART
2 June 2008	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Concho Field Office	HITCHCOCK
5 March 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Concho Field Office	SOUTH ROMAN NOSE
30 January 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	13 acres	Anadarko Agency	SALES BARN
20 January 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Concho Field Office	CHINA
18 January 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	600 acres	Concho Field Office	WHEELER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blaine County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Bucher: 14 producers, 5 occurrences, 2 past producers. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Copper, Titanium, Metal, Vanadium, Silver, Titanium, Metal. 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
Bucher-1	Copper, Vanadium, Titanium, Metal	Occurrence	1962
Cedar Knoll-1	Copper, Titanium, Metal, Vanadium, Silver	Occurrence	1908
Cedar Knoll-2	Copper, Vanadium, Titanium, Metal, Silver	Occurrence	1908
Kingfisher Creek-1	Copper, Titanium, Metal, Silver, Vanadium	Occurrence	1972
Hitchcock-1	Copper	Occurrence	Malachite
Atlas Gypsum Pit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer
Atlas Gypsum Pit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer
Atlas Gypsum Pit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer
Atlas Gypsum Pit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer
Atlas Gypsum Pit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer

Every working recorded in Blaine 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
Hitchcock	3.8 miles	7
Watonga	5.6 miles	7
Carlton	10.9 miles	8
Carleton	11.1 miles	8
Southard	11.6 miles	9
Eagle City	12.5 miles	9
Darrow	12.8 miles	9
Greenfield	12.8 miles	11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122560010

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100244. 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.