Cedar Lake, Oklahoma

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Walnut census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73047. The Survey maps it on the Cogar NW quadrangle. 404 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,447 feet above sea level.

Cedar Lake within Canadian County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1893 USGS Buggy Creek quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Cogar quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Cogar NW quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Anadarko quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

13 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Lake between 2006 and 2020, burning about 6,859 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Firearms and explosives use	1
Other causes	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 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13 acres	Concho Field Office	RENO
7 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	53 acres	Anadarko Agency	WHITEBEAD
30 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	150 acres	Concho Field Office	CEDAR LAKE 3
19 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Anadarko Agency	WHITEBEAD-2
6 March 2010	Debris and open burning	67 acres	Anadarko Agency	MAYBERRY RFD
14 March 2006	Firearms and explosives use	3,000 acres	Concho Field Office	STRONG
12 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,950 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	CEDAR LAKE
11 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Concho Field Office	WALNUT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Canadian County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Lake: 2 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Unknown Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Canadian 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
Niles	3.5 miles	10
Scott	4.3 miles	9
Calumet	12.6 miles	15
Powers	12.7 miles	14
Union City	13.4 miles	14
Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency (historical)	13.5 miles	15
Karns	13.7 miles	14
El Reno	14.4 miles	13

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.

Wikipedia article on Cedar Lake	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q108280883	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 2806998. 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.