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Homestead, Oklahoma

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Okeene census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73763. The Survey maps it on the Homestead quadrangle. 41 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,250 feet above sea level.

Homestead within Blaine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Homestead in 2016, burning about 1,397 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
3 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,397 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryKEPHART

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blaine 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 Homestead: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Clay. 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 Shale PitClayPast Producer
Oklahoma Gypsum Company PitGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Unknown Gypsum PitGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Walton Gypsum Company PitGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Walton Pit & PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer

Every working recorded in Blaine County

Storms near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Homestead in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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
September 2002Thunderstorm WindHomestead$500Power lines were downed.
September 2012HailHomestead-A trained spotter reported 2 hail.
April 2025HailHomestead-no account filed
May 2019HailHomestead-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindHomestead-no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindHomestead-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Blaine 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
Darrow3.6 miles9
Okeene4.7 miles8
Southard7.8 miles9
Longdale8.4 miles8
Carlton11.3 miles8
Carleton11.5 miles8
Canton12.3 miles8
Hitchcock12.7 miles7

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 HomesteadAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5890490The 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 1093872. 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.