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Roberta, Oklahoma

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Durant census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74701. The Survey maps it on the Roberta quadrangle. It stands 669 feet above sea level.

Roberta within Bryan County

On record in Roberta

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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.

Fires near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Roberta in 2006, burning about 41 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
13 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use38 acresChickasaw AgencyRODEO
12 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.6 acresChickasaw AgencyFORBIS
25 January 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTalihina AgencyCHUCKS4WAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bryan 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 Roberta: 1 past producer. None of them 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bryan County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roberta in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
June 1998Thunderstorm WindRoberta$25,000A trailer house was destroyed.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindRoberta-The gust was measured at the Durant mesonet.
February 2023Thunderstorm WindRoberta-no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindRoberta-no account filed
March 2022Thunderstorm WindRoberta-no account filed
May 2020Thunderstorm WindRoberta-no account filed
May 2003HailRoberta-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindRoberta-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindRoberta-no account filed
March 1998HailRoberta-no account filed
June 1996HailRoberta-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bryan 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
Old Allison3.6 miles8
Allison4.2 miles8
Utica4.6 miles7
Pirtle4.7 miles8
Lee Heights5.4 miles8
Durant5.9 miles8
Blue6.2 miles7
Calera6.7 miles8

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 RobertaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7351481The 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 1097255. 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.