Nobscot, Oklahoma

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Seiling census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73646. It stands on Rough Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fay quadrangle.

Nobscot within Dewey 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
1964 USGS Oakwood quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1985 USGS Fay quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Watonga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Nobscot between 1999 and 2019, burning about 1,522 acres in total. 1 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	1
Smoking	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
8 August 2006	Natural	4.0 acres	Concho Field Office	PRAIRIE
26 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Concho Field Office	CANYON
8 April 2010	Debris and open burning	660 acres	Concho Field Office	MCNEIL
29 February 2008	Smoking	100 acres	Concho Field Office	CORNELL
12 February 2002	Debris and open burning	85 acres	Concho Field Office	YELLOWBULL
16 November 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	503 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	CASKET FIRE
31 January 2009	Debris and open burning	140 acres	Concho Field Office	FAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dewey 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 Nobscot: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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.

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	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Dewey 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
Fay	4.8 miles	9
Oakwood	6.0 miles	9
Parallel	6.1 miles	9
Leonel	10.8 miles	9
Putnam	12.3 miles	9
Hucmac	14.8 miles	9
Taloga	17.8 miles	8
Burmah	18.0 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100126. 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.