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Esau Junction, Oklahoma

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Pawnee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74058. It stands on Camp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Casey quadrangle.

Esau Junction within Pawnee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

20 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Esau Junction between 2004 and 2020, burning about 476 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning8
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePawnee AgencyRIDER
30 August 2006Debris and open burning4.0 acresPawnee AgencyWHITE FIRE
14 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acrePawnee AgencyMAY
30 May 2012Debris and open burningunder an acrePawnee AgencyPAWNEE COMPLEX
9 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresPawnee AgencyRESERVE
7 March 2020Debris and open burning274 acresPawnee AgencyBLACK BEAR
5 March 2007Debris and open burning10 acresPawnee AgencyCHAPMAN
5 March 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresPawnee AgencyRESERVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pawnee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Esau Junction: 9 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Silver, Flagstone. 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
Lela North-2Copper, Silver, Chromium, Zirconium, Lead, Vanadium, Molybdenum, CobaltPast Producer1935
Skedee-1Copper, SilverOccurrence1975
Unknown Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Unknown Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
County Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
County Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
County Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stewart Rock Co Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Stewart Rock Co Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Stewart Rock Co Limestone Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Pawnee 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
Skedee1.8 miles12
Cody2.4 miles12
Casey5.2 miles12
Pawnee5.4 miles11
Blackburn5.9 miles13
Jobes5.9 miles12
Maramec7.8 miles12
Lone Chimney9.4 miles11

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 Q122563309The 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 1100395. 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.