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Cache Wye, Oklahoma

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Northwest Comanche census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73507. It lies near Sulphur Flat. The Survey maps it on the Quanah Mountain quadrangle.

Cache Wye within Comanche County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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.

Fires near this place

205 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 205 fires within 5 miles of Cache Wye between 1993 and 2019, burning about 82,530 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 36 were 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
Recreation and ceremony77
Arson/incendiarism36
Natural34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use21
Debris and open burning6
Smoking3
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Firearms and explosives use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1998Smokingunder an acreWichita Mountains National Wildlife RefugeQUANAH
8 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWichita Mountains National Wildlife RefugeCAMPFIRE
7 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,000 acresWichita Mountains National Wildlife RefugeFTSILL9/7
6 September 2009Natural137 acresWichita Mountains National Wildlife RefugeJED STRIKE
6 September 2009Fireworksunder an acreWichita Mountains National Wildlife RefugePARALLEL FOREST
5 September 2015Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresAnadarko AgencyEAGLE FIRE
3 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWichita Mountains National Wildlife RefugeDORISCF2
3 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWichita Mountains National Wildlife RefugeVWWAGONVAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Comanche County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Cache Wye: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Lead, Copper, Copper, Lead, Zinc. 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
Cross Mountain-1Copper, Lead, ZincPast Producer1909, 1915
Hardin Prospect-1Copper, Lead, ZincPast Producer1902, 1903, 1909
Parker ProspectLead, Copper, Silver, Zinc, GoldPast Producer1902, 1907, 1912
Clark and Bennett ProspectLead, Copper, SilverPast Producer1903
Pearson ProspectCopper, SilverPast Producer1904, 1906
Hardin Prospect-2CopperPast Producer1902, 1904
Hattie Green ProspectCopperPast Producer1904

Every working recorded in Comanche 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
The Holy City3.0 miles22
Indiahoma Wye4.2 miles24
Cache5.5 miles24
Meers5.7 miles13
Medicine Park6.8 miles22
Lawtonka Acres7.0 miles13
Duhringe Pass7.5 miles16
Indiahoma9.0 miles12

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 Q122558893The 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 1100255. 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.