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Indiahoma Wye, Oklahoma

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Northwest Comanche census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73552. It lies near Phantom Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Quanah Mountain quadrangle.

Indiahoma Wye within Comanche County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

225 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 225 fires within 5 miles of Indiahoma Wye between 1993 and 2020, burning about 29,362 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 36 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
Recreation and ceremony85
Arson/incendiarism36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Equipment and vehicle use27
Natural27
Debris and open burning7
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Firearms and explosives use1

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
9 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWichita Mountains National Wildlife RefugeTREASURE LAKE
9 September 2009Naturalunder an acreWichita Mountains National Wildlife RefugeCRABAPPLE
9 September 2009Naturalunder an acreWichita Mountains National Wildlife RefugeDEER CREEK
9 September 1998Smokingunder an acreWichita Mountains National Wildlife RefugeQUANAH
8 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWichita Mountains National Wildlife RefugeCAMPFIRE
7 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreWichita Mountains National Wildlife RefugeBRANDING FIRE
3 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWichita Mountains National Wildlife RefugeDORISCF2
3 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWichita Mountains National Wildlife RefugeVWWAGONVAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Comanche County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Indiahoma Wye: 5 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Copper, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Titanium, Metal, Vanadium. 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
Copper Eagle ProspectCopper, LeadPast Producer1904, 1906
Parker ProspectLead, Copper, Silver, Zinc, GoldPast Producer1902, 1907, 1912
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wichita Mtns. AreaIron, Titanium, Metal, VanadiumOccurrence
Zircon MineZirconium, CopperPast Producer1905, 1906, 1934
Clark and Bennett ProspectLead, Copper, SilverPast Producer1903

Every working recorded in Comanche 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
Cache Wye4.2 miles24
Indiahoma5.8 miles12
Cache6.1 miles24
The Holy City6.9 miles22
Meers9.0 miles13
Lawtonka Acres10.8 miles13
Medicine Park11.0 miles22
Duhringe Pass11.6 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.

Wikidata item Q122556038The 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 1100522. 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.