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Lake Valley, Oklahoma

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Southeast Washita census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73041. The Survey maps it on the Lake Valley quadrangle.

Lake Valley within Washita County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lake Valley between 2000 and 2006, burning about 11 acres in total. 1 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
Natural1

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
15 August 2006Natural1.0 acresConcho Field OfficeHOLLY
7 June 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAnadarko AgencyMONICA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washita County

Storms near this place

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Valley in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 1996: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
November 1996Thunderstorm WindLake Valley-no account filed
June 1995HailLake Valley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washita 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
Indian Village (historical)3.3 miles9
Rainy (historical)5.1 miles9
Cloud Chief5.9 miles9
Cowden9.7 miles8
Rocky10.5 miles9
Cordell10.7 miles9
Cowden Junction11.7 miles9
Corn15.1 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100561. 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.

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.