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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.

Summerfield within Le Flore County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

244 since 1992

Regional 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/incendiarism100
Missing data/not specified/undetermined85
Debris and open burning38
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural6
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
30 September 2002Debris and open burning9.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2002Natural1.5 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20371
20 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20233
11 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
9 August 2001Natural1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
8 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20408
6 August 2008Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20191

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Le Flore County

Storms near this place

24 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2003Tornado (F1)Summerfield$25,000A F1 tornado caused damage to the west of Summerfield. The tornado destroyed a small barn and a chicken house. Several trees were uprooted.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindSummerfield$5,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a large tree. The tree fell on a church.
April 2015HailSummerfield$5,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindSummerfield$100Several large tree limbs were blown down in Summerfield.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindSummerfield-Strong thunderstorm wind uprooted trees and snapped large tree limbs.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSummerfield-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindSummerfield-Trees were blown down by strong thunderstorm wind.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindSummerfield-Emergency management personnel estimated 70 mph thunderstorm wind gusts. Large tree limbs were blown down.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindSummerfield-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindSummerfield-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a tree. The tree blocked a road.
July 1994HailSummerfield-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 2020HailSummerfield-no account filed
February 2020HailSummerfield-no account filed
April 2009HailSummerfield-no account filed
April 2009HailSummerfield-no account filed
November 2004HailSummerfield-no account filed
May 2002HailSummerfield-no account filed
September 2001HailSummerfield-no account filed
May 2000HailSummerfield-no account filed
June 1999HailSummerfield-no account filed
January 1999HailSummerfield-no account filed
July 1998HailSummerfield-no account filed
June 1995HailSummerfield-no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindSummerfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Le Flore 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
Fanshawe4.2 miles16
Caston4.4 miles15
Braidwood5.1 miles15
Leflore6.1 miles16
Victor6.3 miles15
Reichert6.7 miles17
Glendale8.5 miles17
Wister8.9 miles17

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 SummerfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7637562The 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.