Merritt, Oklahoma

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Elk City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73644. The Survey maps it on the Doxey quadrangle.

Merritt 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.

1955 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Sayre quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1985 USGS Elk City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Doxey quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Merritt between 2006 and 2018, burning about 1,589 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
Arson/incendiarism	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 August 2006	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Concho Field Office	8570
30 March 2006	Arson/incendiarism	100 acres	Concho Field Office	ELK 1
30 March 2006	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Concho Field Office	ELK 2
16 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,466 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	MERRITT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beckham County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Merritt: 5 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Doxey	5.2 miles	9
Hocker	5.7 miles	8
Elk City	6.1 miles	8
Sayre	9.0 miles	9
Carter	10.4 miles	9
Taylor	10.6 miles	9
New Liberty	11.3 miles	9
Hext	15.6 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100628. 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.