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Lenora, Oklahoma

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Taloga-Leedey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73667. The Survey maps it on the Lenora quadrangle.

Lenora within Dewey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Lenora between 1999 and 2008, burning about 292 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
31 July 1999Debris and open burning10 acresConcho Field OfficeFIELD
29 July 1999Debris and open burning80 acresConcho Field OfficeFEED
28 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresConcho Field OfficeVANDERWORK
24 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresConcho Field OfficeLONORA
14 February 2000Smoking1.5 acresConcho Field OfficeSQUINT EYE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dewey County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lenora: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dewey County

Storms near this place

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lenora in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 1999: 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
May 1999HailLenora-no account filed
June 1998HailLenora-no account filed
June 1996HailLenora-no account filed
August 1994HailLenora-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dewey 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
Taloga5.2 miles8
Cestos7.3 miles8
Webb8.7 miles8
Seiling10.4 miles8
Camargo12.2 miles8
Trail13.4 miles9
Putnam13.7 miles9
Hucmac14.1 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100574. 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.