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Moorewood, Oklahoma

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Butler census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73654. The Survey maps it on the McClure quadrangle.

Moorewood within Custer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Moorewood between 2005 and 2018, burning about 406 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
9 August 2007Debris and open burning40 acresConcho Field OfficeQUICKIE
9 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresConcho Field OfficeWELDER
10 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresConcho Field OfficeROBBINS
6 March 2018Equipment and vehicle use344 acresConcho Field OfficeRED MOON
12 December 2005Equipment and vehicle use15 acresConcho Field OfficeWRECK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Custer 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 Moorewood: 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 Siltstone PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Custer County

Storms near this place

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moorewood in 26 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 19 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado. 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
June 2004Thunderstorm WindMoorewood$1,000Three inch diameter tree limbs were downed.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindMoorewood$500no account filed
May 2025HailMoorewood-The location is approximate.
May 2024HailMoorewood-MPing report.
May 2024Tornado (EFU)Moorewood-A storm chaser observed this partially rain-wrapped tornado about 4 miles northeast of Hammon. No damage was reported and the tornado path was estimated.
May 2024HailMoorewood-MPing report.
April 2015Tornado (EF0)Moorewood-Spotters reported a brief tornado touchdown about 4 miles northeast of Hammon. No damage is known to have occurred with this tornado.
April 2015HailMoorewood-No damage reports.
March 2010Tornado (EF0)Moorewood-After exiting Hammon and moving out of Roger Mills County, the tornado dissipated 3 miles northeast of Hammon in Custer County. No significant damage occurred in Custer County.
March 2025HailMoorewood-no account filed
May 2025HailMoorewood-no account filed
May 2016HailMoorewood-no account filed
October 2016HailMoorewood-no account filed
May 2010HailMoorewood-no account filed
June 2003HailMoorewood-no account filed
May 2002HailMoorewood-no account filed
May 2002HailMoorewood-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindMoorewood-no account filed
June 2001HailMoorewood-no account filed
March 2000HailMoorewood-no account filed
April 2000HailMoorewood-no account filed
August 1997HailMoorewood-no account filed
March 1996HailMoorewood-no account filed
June 1994HailMoorewood-no account filed
April 1994HailMoorewood-no account filed
May 1993Thunderstorm WindMoorewood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Custer 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
McClure6.5 miles8
Osceola (historical)9.1 miles8
Butler11.2 miles11
Anthon17.8 miles10
Stafford18.5 miles10
Sunset20.2 miles9
Independence22.0 miles10
Arapaho23.3 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q122551511The 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 1100643. 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.