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Mayfield, Oklahoma

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Erick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73666. It stands on West Buffalo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mayfield quadrangle. It stands 2,005 feet above sea level.

Mayfield within Beckham 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

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Mayfield in 2005, burning about 4,000 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
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
3 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4,000 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryERICK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beckham 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 Mayfield: 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 Beckham County

Storms near this place

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mayfield in 26 storm reports between 1993 and 2007: 19 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
April 2003Tornado (F1)Mayfield1 hurt, $1,020,000A tornado moved from 2 miles SSW to 0.5 miles SSE of Sweetwater causing major damage to portions of the Sweetwater school. A man received minor injuries when the trailer he was in rolled before coming to rest next to a fence. Several fence posts that had been cemented into the ground at the baseball field were uprooted and a forty foot by forty foot barn was destroyed.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindMayfield$1,000A three-inch diameter tree limb was blown down. Monetary damages were estimated.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindMayfield$1,000A house located on the south side of Highway 152 had some roof damage.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMayfield$250Several four inch diameter tree limbs were downed.
May 2006HailMayfield-Hail was reported covering the ground.
April 2007HailMayfield-no account filed
May 2007HailMayfield-no account filed
May 2007HailMayfield-no account filed
June 2007HailMayfield-no account filed
June 2006HailMayfield-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindMayfield-no account filed
May 2006HailMayfield-no account filed
May 2005HailMayfield-no account filed
April 2003HailMayfield-no account filed
April 2002HailMayfield-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindMayfield-no account filed
June 2001HailMayfield-no account filed
May 2001HailMayfield-no account filed
September 1999Thunderstorm WindMayfield-no account filed
June 1999HailMayfield-no account filed
September 1999HailMayfield-no account filed
April 1999HailMayfield-no account filed
March 1995HailMayfield-no account filed
December 1993HailMayfield-no account filed
March 1993HailMayfield-no account filed
March 1993HailMayfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beckham 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
Prentiss4.1 miles9
Sweetwater6.0 miles9
Erick8.5 miles9
New Liberty8.6 miles9
Hext9.1 miles9
Texola10.2 miles9
Sayre13.0 miles9
Delhi15.5 miles9

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 MayfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16736108The 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 1100612. 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.