East Junction, Oklahoma

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Clinton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73601. It stands on Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clinton quadrangle.

East Junction within Custer County

On record in East Junction

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Crawford Houselisted 1984 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1955 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1976 USGS Clinton SW quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Watonga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

38 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of East Junction between 1998 and 2020, burning about 613 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	12
Fireworks	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Debris and open burning	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
8 September 2000	Debris and open burning	32 acres	Concho Field Office	COLONY
30 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Concho Field Office	CLINTON 2
13 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Concho Field Office	SNIDER
24 August 2011	Railroad operations and maintenance	5.0 acres	Concho Field Office	TURTLE CREEK
2 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Concho Field Office	JANCY
5 July 2013	Fireworks	6.0 acres	Concho Field Office	FINALE
5 July 2008	Fireworks	under an acre	Concho Field Office	LUCKY STAR
4 July 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Concho Field Office	ORPHAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Custer 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 East Junction: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Acme Brick Company Shale Pit	Clay	Producer
Acme Brick Company Shale Pit/Plant	Clay	Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Harold Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	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
Clinton	0.8 miles	10
Ralph	2.8 miles	10
Arapaho	3.5 miles	10
Parkersburg	3.9 miles	10
Indianapolis	5.7 miles	10
Stafford	8.4 miles	10
Custer City	10.5 miles	10
Foley	12.5 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100375. 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.