BlockSpring Creek, Oklahoma
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Anadarko census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73042. The Survey maps it on the Cogar quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1893 USGS Buggy Creek quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Cogar quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Cogar quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Anadarko quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
33 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Spring Creek between 2003 and 2020, burning about 1,290 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Anadarko Agency | ANDERSON |
| 29 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Anadarko Agency | TALL CEDAR |
| 23 August 2009 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Anadarko Agency | CADDO COMPLEX |
| 4 July 2013 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Anadarko Agency | CADDO-727 |
| 17 July 2003 | Debris and open burning | 65 acres | Anadarko Agency | RAINWOOD |
| 29 June 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 160 acres | Anadarko Agency | STUBBLE HEAD |
| 27 June 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Anadarko Agency | STEVENS FIRE |
| 21 June 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 12 acres | Anadarko Agency | EAST BINGER UNIT 70 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Spring Creek: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Vanadium, Silver, Titanium, Metal. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheyenne Butte-1 | Copper, Vanadium, Silver, Titanium, Metal | Occurrence | 1962 |
Storms near this place
1 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Creek in 1 storm report in 2001: 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2001 | Tornado (F1) | Spring Creek | $75,000 | E5. This multiple-vortex tornado developed about 1/2 mile west of where E4 dissipated, and resulted in minor damage to a mobile home and a nearby storage building. Major damage, rated F1, was also sustained to a large area of trees. Straight-line winds are believed to have unroofed a home and destroyed a barn, about 1/2 mile west of US 281. |
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.
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 Spring Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7580432 | 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 1100845. 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.