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Silver City, Oklahoma

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Keystone Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74038. The Survey maps it on the Olive quadrangle.

Silver City within Creek County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

16 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Silver City between 2006 and 2020, burning about 6,247 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning3
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
10 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresPawnee AgencyOLIVE COMPLEX
30 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined810 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryBEAGLEY
3 April 2011Natural17 acresOkmulgee Field OfficePOWERLINE
2 April 2015Debris and open burning250 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeFORMAN
7 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeSILVER BLOWERS
7 March 2011Misuse of fire by a minor972 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeSILVER HANGER
1 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined334 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry81ST (POWERLINE)
3 February 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined805 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryOLIVE

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 Silver City: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Creek County

Storms near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silver City in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2004Thunderstorm WindSilver City$50,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour destroyed two mobile homes and uprooted several trees.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindSilver City$15,000Strong thunderstorm wind damaged a tank battery, snapped large tree limbs, and damaged an outbuilding.
September 1999HailSilver City-A single storm back-builded over Silver City, causing hail as large as quarters to last for 20 minutes in Silver City.
March 2026HailSilver City-no account filed
October 2019HailSilver City-no account filed
June 2011HailSilver City-no account filed
April 2004HailSilver City-no account filed
September 2001HailSilver City-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lawrence Creek3.7 miles13
Olive4.3 miles13
Oilton4.7 miles12
Player5.8 miles12
Markham6.3 miles12
New Mannford7.6 miles13
Frey7.8 miles12
Pemeta7.9 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1098041. 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.