Dead Women Crossing, Oklahoma

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Weatherford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73096. The Survey maps it on the Weatherford quadrangle.

Dead Women Crossing within Custer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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
1964 USGS Weatherford quadrangle1:62500
1985 USGS Watonga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Weatherford quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

20 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Dead Women Crossing between 2005 and 2020, burning about 376 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Debris and open burning	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	1
Fireworks	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
5 August 2005	Natural	9.0 acres	Concho Field Office	AIRPORT RD
3 August 2005	Debris and open burning	9.7 acres	Concho Field Office	CUSTER RD
4 July 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Concho Field Office	BLOWOUT
4 July 2005	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Concho Field Office	CADDO
18 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Concho Field Office	MILLER
18 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Concho Field Office	CONTRACTOR
12 July 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Concho Field Office	BLUE
15 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	176 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	CEDAR CANYON FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Weatherford

Every fire recorded in Custer 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 Dead Women Crossing: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Unknown Gypsum Pit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
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 Custer 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
Weatherford	4.2 miles	8
Indianapolis	11.3 miles	10
Thomas	13.2 miles	8
Foley	13.2 miles	10
Custer City	14.0 miles	10
Cody	16.5 miles	9
Arapaho	16.6 miles	10
East Junction	16.9 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100345. 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.