Summerfield, Oklahoma
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Wister census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74966. The Survey maps it on the Summerfield quadrangle. It stands 558 feet above sea level.
On record in Summerfield
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Summerfield Schoollisted 1988
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 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.
- 1900 USGS Winding Stair quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1909 USGS Winding Stair quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Mcalester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Summerfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1989 USGS Mena quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
244 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 244 fires within 5 miles of Summerfield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14,796 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 100 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 100 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 85 |
| Debris and open burning | 38 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 9.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 September 2002 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 26 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20371 |
| 20 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20233 |
| 11 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 August 2001 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20408 |
| 6 August 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20191 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
24 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summerfield in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 14 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2003 | Tornado (F1) | Summerfield | $25,000 | A F1 tornado caused damage to the west of Summerfield. The tornado destroyed a small barn and a chicken house. Several trees were uprooted. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summerfield | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a large tree. The tree fell on a church. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Summerfield | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summerfield | $100 | Several large tree limbs were blown down in Summerfield. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summerfield | - | Strong thunderstorm wind uprooted trees and snapped large tree limbs. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summerfield | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summerfield | - | Trees were blown down by strong thunderstorm wind. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summerfield | - | Emergency management personnel estimated 70 mph thunderstorm wind gusts. Large tree limbs were blown down. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summerfield | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs. |
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summerfield | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a tree. The tree blocked a road. |
| July 1994 | Hail | Summerfield | - | Isolated severe thunderstorms developed in Le Flore County of southeast Oklahoma during the late afternoon of July 16th. Strong thunderstorm winds downed large tree limbs in Summerfield, and dime-size hail also fell in Summerfield. Nickel-size hail fell 2 miles south of Page. |
| February 2020 | Hail | Summerfield | - | no account filed |
| February 2020 | Hail | Summerfield | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Summerfield | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Summerfield | - | no account filed |
| November 2004 | Hail | Summerfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Summerfield | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Summerfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Summerfield | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Summerfield | - | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Hail | Summerfield | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Summerfield | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Summerfield | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summerfield | - | no account filed |
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 Summerfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7637562 | 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 1101683. 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.
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.








