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Hooper, Oklahoma

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Temple census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73548. The Survey maps it on the Hooper quadrangle.

Hooper within Cotton 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

25 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Hooper between 2006 and 2020, burning about 355 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
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
10 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 79 AT BYERS M/A GRASS FIRE 10-22
31 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service8/7/2015
28 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCGEE FIRE
28 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8282020
21 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHARDING FIRE M/A BYERS
10 August 2014Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRUDDY
10 August 2014Natural4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMOFFIT RD FIRE RUDDY M/A BYERS
30 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cotton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Hooper: 5 occurrences, 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Silica, Copper, Manganese. 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
Pitts Pit & PlantSilicaProducer
Unnamed ProspectManganeseOccurrence1941
Waurika West-3Copper, ManganeseOccurrence1940
Whiskey Creek-1CopperOccurrence1852
Whiskey Creek-2CopperOccurrence1913
Whiskey Creek-3CopperOccurrence1913
Jacobson Materials Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cotton 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
Taylor8.4 miles10
Temple8.4 miles10
Fivemile Corner14.3 miles10
Randlett15.4 miles10
Walters15.6 miles9
Cookietown16.8 miles9
Devol22.2 miles9
Hulen23.9 miles12

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 HooperAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18153115The 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 1100503. 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.