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New Oberlin, Oklahoma

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the West Choctaw census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74727. The Survey maps it on the New Oberlin quadrangle.

New Oberlin within Choctaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of New Oberlin between 2006 and 2018, burning about 183 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism2
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
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13018
4 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE--DIRECT
23 July 2006Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresTalihina AgencyWHITEGRASS
16 June 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceRIVERBY
10 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
15 October 2015Equipment and vehicle use100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRIVERBY
20 January 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTalihina AgencyROCK CREEK
12 January 2009Debris and open burning8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCRAWFORD02

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Choctaw 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 New Oberlin: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
UnknownClayUnknown

Every working recorded in Choctaw County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Oberlin in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 hail. 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
May 2021HailNew Oberlin$20,000Baseball size hail damaged vehicles.

Every storm recorded in Choctaw 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
Bluff8.9 miles14
Boswell9.2 miles16
Duland9.2 miles14
Unger9.8 miles16
Jasper10.7 miles15
Mayhew11.6 miles15
Soper12.6 miles15
Gay12.8 miles13

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 Q122547977The 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 1095833. 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.