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Hoyt, Oklahoma

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the West Haskell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74472. The Survey maps it on the Porum quadrangle. 82 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 568 feet above sea level.

Hoyt within Haskell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

87 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Hoyt between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,882 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 31 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/incendiarism31
Debris and open burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural1
Smoking1

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
26 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
1 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTalihina AgencyEC388
8 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry20409
30 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
30 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
29 August 2011Natural2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20422
29 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
22 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Haskell County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Hoyt: 9 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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
L B Barbee Sandstone PitFlagstoneProducer
Unknown Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitsClayPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitsClayPast Producer
H & C Sand Co Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Haskell County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hoyt in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 4 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
June 2024HailHoyt-no account filed
June 2024HailHoyt-no account filed
June 1998HailHoyt-no account filed
July 1997HailHoyt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Haskell 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
Whitefield3.7 miles15
Hughart4.8 miles15
Enterprise5.0 miles14
Stigler9.6 miles14
Lewisville10.5 miles17
Kinta11.1 miles15
Sans Bois12.4 miles13
Lafayette12.5 miles14

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 HoytAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24191636The 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 1093989. 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.