Nescatunga, Oklahoma

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the North Alfalfa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73749. It stands on Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Manchester SW quadrangle. 90 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,145 feet above sea level.

Nescatunga within Alfalfa County

Population over time

2 figures

Nescatunga grew from 70 to 90 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	70
2020	90	+20 (+29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1955 USGS Woodward quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Woodward quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1969 USGS Manchester SW quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Alva quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Alva quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

22 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Nescatunga between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,995 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
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Other causes	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
31 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge	SOUTH SPILLWAY
25 July 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge	TRANSFORM
9 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge	OKSLR-FY20-WF-CANAL FIRE
20 June 2011	Debris and open burning	80 acres	Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge	JET REC
10 May 2008	Other causes	under an acre	Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge	JET REC RV
5 April 2011	Smoking	under an acre	Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge	HWY 11
4 April 2018	Debris and open burning	200 acres	Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge	JET FIRE
4 April 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,400 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	AMORITA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alfalfa County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Nescatunga: 5 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Great Salt Plains-1	Copper	Occurrence	1973
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	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Alfalfa 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
Vining	1.2 miles	8
Jet	6.2 miles	10
Cherokee	10.8 miles	8
Byron	12.7 miles	8
Ingersoll	13.2 miles	8
Amorita	13.9 miles	8
Driftwood	14.0 miles	8
Yewed	14.5 miles	8

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 Nescatunga	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14708634	The 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 2130055. 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.