Meeker, Oklahoma

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 7 records

• Crescent Schoollisted 1996
• Meeker Town Halllisted 1996
• Midlothian Schoollisted 1996
• St. Paul Baptist Church and Cemeterylisted 2002
• Warwick Schoollisted 1996
• Fairview Schoollisted 1997
• Spring Dell Schoollisted 1996

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.

• 1905 USGS Chandler quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Chandler quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1963 USGS Oklahoma City quadrangle1:250000
• 1974 USGS Meeker quadrangle1:24000
• 1990 USGS Bristow quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Meeker between 2000 and 2011, burning about 926 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Clifton
• Payson
• Sparks

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Meeker: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meeker in 48 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 27 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 6 tornado, 1 flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1095295. 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.