Schlegel, Oklahoma

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Cushing census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74023. The Survey maps it on the Yale quadrangle.

Schlegel 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.

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 Yale quadrangle1:24000
1990 USGS Keystone Lake quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

27 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Schlegel between 2006 and 2020, burning about 3,822 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined	8
Debris and open burning	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
26 September 2006	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Pawnee Agency	MATTIE EAGLECHIEF
7 August 2012	Natural	2.0 acres	Pawnee Agency	UNDERWOOD
4 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,678 acres	Pawnee Agency	NORFOLK RD
4 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	685 acres	Kickapoo Field Office	DEEP ROCK
26 August 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Pawnee Agency	LAWSON RD
21 August 2006	Natural	1.0 acres	Pawnee Agency	BFOT
9 April 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kickapoo Field Office	MASON
21 April 2011	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Pawnee Agency	RIVER CAMP

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 Schlegel: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Corundum, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown Shale Pit	Corundum	Past Producer
	Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
North Village	2.1 miles	11
Gano	4.1 miles	11
Cushing	4.9 miles	10
Cartoco	5.8 miles	12
Yale	7.4 miles	12
Amabel	8.5 miles	11
Drakes Corner	10.4 miles	10
Quay	10.6 miles	12

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.

Wikidata item Q122572080

The 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 1100817. 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.