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Hoover, Oklahoma

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pauls Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73030. It stands on Garrison Creek. The Survey maps it on the Joy quadrangle.

Hoover within Garvin County

On record in Hoover

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Hoover between 1996 and 2015, burning about 390 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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
Arson/incendiarism7
Debris and open burning4
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
19 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresChickasaw AgencyCARLENE
19 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresChickasaw AgencyBRIAN
19 August 2006Arson/incendiarism10 acresChickasaw AgencyMEL
19 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresChickasaw AgencyEVAN
19 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresChickasaw AgencyANDY
16 August 2006Arson/incendiarism25 acresChickasaw AgencyMERIDIAN
15 July 2006Natural2.1 acresChickasaw AgencyBOWLING PIN
31 March 2015Debris and open burning15 acresChickasaw AgencyTRESSPASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Garvin 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 Hoover: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Garvin 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
Hennepin5.4 miles15
Katie6.9 miles15
Brady7.3 miles15
Satterwhite8.9 miles14
Wynnewood9.5 miles16
Eola10.4 miles14
Elmore City10.6 miles14
McCarty11.0 miles16

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 HooverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30693662The 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 1100504. 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.