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Corum, Oklahoma

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Comanche census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73529. The Survey maps it on the Corum quadrangle.

Corum within Stephens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Corum in 2005, burning about 320 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
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
24 December 2005Power generation/transmission/distribution320 acresAnadarko AgencyBEAVER CR.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stephens County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Corum: 4 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 Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Stephens County

Storms near this place

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corum in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 14 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 2025Flash FloodCorum$30,000Images courtesy of The Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management show portions of County Road 1860 washed out due to flooding. Event time is approximate.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindCorum$10,000Corum Fire Department building damaged. Time is radar estimated.
April 1995Tornado (F1)Corum$500no account filed
August 1999LightningCorum$200no account filed
April 2026HailCorum-The report was relayed through mPING.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindCorum-No damage reported.
May 2015HailCorum-No damage reported.
May 2015HailCorum-No damage reported.
April 2010HailCorum-The report was relayed by KSWO-7 in Lawton.
May 2010HailCorum-The hail was reported on Highway 53 at Corum Road.
April 2021HailCorum-no account filed
May 2015HailCorum-no account filed
May 2014HailCorum-no account filed
April 2011HailCorum-no account filed
April 2011HailCorum-no account filed
May 2004HailCorum-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindCorum-no account filed
March 2003HailCorum-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindCorum-no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindCorum-no account filed
April 1995HailCorum-no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindCorum-no account filed
August 1994HailCorum-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stephens 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
Empire City5.7 miles10
Gas City6.1 miles10
Comanche7.4 miles15
Meridian8.0 miles15
Sunray8.2 miles15
Liberty9.5 miles15
Oil City11.2 miles12
Dixie Park11.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1091698. 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.