Straight, Oklahoma

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Guymon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73942. The Survey maps it on the Straight quadrangle.

Straight within Texas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Perryton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Perryton quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Straight quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Guymon quadrangle1:100000

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 Straight: 2 past producers. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Texas 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
Mouser	1.8 miles	6
Midway	4.7 miles	7
Hough	6.8 miles	6
Optima	9.5 miles	7
Panoma	10.5 miles	7
Hovey	12.2 miles	6
Hooker	12.5 miles	6
Guymon	13.5 miles	7

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 Straight	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24191577	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 1098576. 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.