Mehan, Oklahoma

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Stillwater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74074. It stands on Little Stillwater Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ripley quadrangle.

Mehan within Payne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1929 USGS Ripley quadrangle1:62500
1932 USGS Ripley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Enid quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Enid quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1975 USGS Ripley quadrangle1:24000
1990 USGS Keystone Lake quadrangle1:100000

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Mehan: 7 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Ripley East	Copper	Occurrence	1955
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Stewart Rock Co.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Stewart Stone-Cushing	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Payne County

Storms near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mehan in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 2005: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Mehan	$17,000	The Mehan Union Church, 6 miles east of Highway 177 on Mehan Road, sustained some damage. Objects inside the church were blown around when the doors, some of which were locked, were blown open. The most significant damage was a stain glass window that was blown into the church and some shingles blown from the east side of the roof.
May 1994	Hail	Mehan	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Payne 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ripley	2.7 miles	11
Ingalls	5.1 miles	11
Drakes Corner	5.5 miles	10
Cottingham	5.7 miles	10
Amabel	6.0 miles	11
Perkins	6.9 miles	11
Stillwater	7.8 miles	10
Vinco	8.1 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1095299. 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.

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.