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Catale, Oklahoma

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Chelsea census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74332. The Survey maps it on the White Oak quadrangle.

Catale within Rogers County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

7 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Catale between 2009 and 2017, burning about 1,441 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
20 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined150 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryCATTLEE
20 February 2009Arson/incendiarism660 acresCherokee Nation TribeNE 40302
5 December 2010Natural13 acresCherokee Nation TribeYELLOW JACKET
19 December 2010Natural610 acresCherokee Nation TribeCHELSEA
13 December 2012Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30466
6 January 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresCherokee Nation TribeBRIER PATCH
2 January 2012Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30011

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rogers County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Catale: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. 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, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rogers County

Storms near this place

22 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Catale in 22 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 13 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
May 2020HailCatale$20,000no account filed
April 2024HailCatale$15,000Ping pong ball size hail damaged vehicles and homes.
March 2013HailCatale$15,000no account filed
August 2022Thunderstorm WindCatale$10,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a large tree, snapped large tree limbs, blew down power lines, and damaged a railroad crossing gate near Highway 66 and 6th Street. Some tree limbs fell onto a mobile home, damaging it.
May 2017HailCatale$10,000no account filed
May 2017HailCatale$10,000no account filed
July 2014Thunderstorm WindCatale$5,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees and power lines.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindCatale-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindCatale-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindCatale-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindCatale-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
May 2011Flash FloodCatale-Several roadways were flooded and impassable as a result of locally heavy rainfall.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindCatale-Strong thunderstorm wind uprooted a tree.
December 1999HailCatale-Dime size hail fell in Chelsea.
December 1999HailCatale-Dime size hail covered the ground in Chelsea.
May 2017HailCatale-no account filed
May 2013HailCatale-no account filed
June 2012HailCatale-no account filed
April 2011HailCatale-no account filed
June 2010HailCatale-no account filed
April 2000Thunderstorm WindCatale-no account filed
April 1998HailCatale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rogers 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
Chelsea3.7 miles16
Howard6.5 miles16
Hisle8.0 miles16
Bushyhead9.4 miles16
Winganon10.0 miles16
Foyil11.7 miles19
Jamestown13.7 miles16
Edgewater Acres15.9 miles19

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 Q122550482The 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 1100272. 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.

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.