Sand Creek, Oklahoma

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Wakita census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73771. The Survey maps it on the Sand Creek quadrangle.

Sand Creek within Grant County

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.

1955 USGS Woodward quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Woodward quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1969 USGS Sand Creek quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Alva quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Alva quadrangle1:100000

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Sand Creek: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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 Clay Pits	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Grant 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
Gilbert	5.2 miles	11
Wakita	6.0 miles	10
Hawley	6.0 miles	8
Gibbon	7.3 miles	10
Clyde	10.5 miles	10
Manchester	10.6 miles	9
Nash	12.1 miles	8
Jefferson	14.7 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1097728. 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.

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.