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Quay, Oklahoma

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1990. It lies in ZIP code area 74085. The Survey maps it on the Maramec quadrangle.

Quay within Payne 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.

Fires near this place

45 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Quay between 2004 and 2020, burning about 7,939 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Debris and open burning8
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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
6 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3,500 acresPawnee AgencyLAGOON CREEK
1 August 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresPawnee AgencyTHOMAS
21 May 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePawnee AgencyYOUNGHAWK
6 April 2011Natural3.0 acresPawnee AgencyFRIED SQUIREL
6 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresPawnee AgencyYOUNGHAWK
4 April 2015Debris and open burning109 acresPawnee AgencyTANKER 2 FIRE
4 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePawnee AgencyCEMETERY FIRE
3 April 2019Debris and open burning48 acresPawnee AgencyUNDERWOOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Payne County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Quay: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Silver. 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
Quay NorthCopper, SilverOccurrence1975
Unknown Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Payne County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quay in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 flash flood. 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 2023Flash FloodQuay-Multiple roads with water covering them (up to 1-foot in spots).

Every storm recorded in Payne 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
Yale3.2 miles12
Cartoco5.0 miles12
West Point7.9 miles11
Ingalls9.9 miles11
Gano10.3 miles11
Schlegel10.6 miles12
Amabel12.3 miles11
Glencoe12.3 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1096992. 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.