Player, Oklahoma

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Keystone Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74038. It stands on Deer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oilton quadrangle.

Player within Creek County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1929 USGS Yale quadrangle1:62500
1932 USGS Yale quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1955 USGS Enid quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Enid quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Oilton quadrangle1:24000
1990 USGS Keystone Lake quadrangle1:100000

Photographs

1 photograph, 1940

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Member of the Red Dust Players, Oklahoma City theater group, operating puppets for the entertainment of meeting of UCAPAWA (United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America) members. Bristow, Oklahoma
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

19 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Player between 2006 and 2018, burning about 1,718 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Debris and open burning	4
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
21 August 2006	Natural	1.0 acres	Pawnee Agency	BFOT
6 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Pawnee Agency	YOUNGHAWK
4 April 2015	Debris and open burning	109 acres	Pawnee Agency	TANKER 2 FIRE
3 April 2011	Natural	17 acres	Okmulgee Field Office	POWERLINE
11 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pawnee Agency	WHIPE
8 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Pawnee Agency	CHAPMAN
7 March 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	972 acres	Okmulgee Field Office	SILVER HANGER
4 March 2012	Debris and open burning	200 acres	Pawnee Agency	GREENWOOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Creek County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Player: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Creek 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
Oilton	1.3 miles	12
Markham	2.4 miles	12
Pemeta	5.0 miles	12
Frey	5.3 miles	12
Silver City	5.8 miles	13
Drumright	7.4 miles	11
Olive	8.0 miles	13
Lawrence Creek	9.5 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100750. 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.