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Sumner, Oklahoma

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Perry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73077. It stands on Mule Creek. The Survey maps it on the Morrison quadrangle. 35 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Sumner within Noble County

On record in Sumner

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Sumner between 2006 and 2017, burning about 1,418 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
28 March 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePawnee AgencyQUAIL
23 March 2017Arson/incendiarism218 acresPawnee AgencyGREASY CREEK
27 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,200 acresPawnee AgencyJASON STEVENS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Noble County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Sumner: 17 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Greasy CreekCopperOccurrence1979
Unknown Shale PitClayProducer
Unknown Sand PitClay, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitClay, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Noble County

Storms near this place

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sumner in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 19 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 5 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 2019Tornado (EF1)Sumner$30,000A car was flipped, a garage door damaged, and numerous trees were downed by a tornado east of Perry.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Sumner$30,000This tornado was observed touching down north-northeast of Sumner before being observed by several boaters and fishermen crossing Sooner Lake into Pawnee County. In Noble county, one barn was destroyed and the garage door was blown in on another. There was also scattered tree and tree limb damage.
May 2016Tornado (EF2)Sumner$10,000This tornado moved back into Noble County from Payne County between Country Club Road and Sangre Road and moved north-northeast for about a mile and half. Damage was confined to trees and power poles, but broken wood power poles still support an EF2 damage rating.
August 1999LightningSumner$5,000no account filed
May 2025HailSumner-The report was relayed through mPING.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindSumner-Red Rock (REDR) Mesonet observation.
May 2022Tornado (EFU)Sumner-Storm chasers observed a tornado south of the intersection of US-177 and the Cimarron Turnpike. No damage is known to have occurred and the specific path is estimated.
May 2019Tornado (EFU)Sumner-A storm chaser observed a brief tornado in eastern Noble County, reported to be about 4 miles south-southwest of Sooner Lake. No damage was reported and the specific location is estimated.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindSumner-No damage was reported.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindSumner-No damage was reported.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindSumner-No damage reported.
November 2015Thunderstorm WindSumner-No damage reported.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindSumner-Mesonet station at Red Rock recorded a gust to 66 mph at 7:25pm LST. Also recorded 60 mph at 7:30pm LST.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindSumner-Wind gust was measured by the Oklahoma mesonet.
April 1994HailSumner-Severe thunderstorms in central Oklahoma during the afternoon hours on the 10th produced hail up to golf ball-size.
February 2023Thunderstorm WindSumner-no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSumner-no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSumner-no account filed
May 2020Thunderstorm WindSumner-no account filed
May 2020Thunderstorm WindSumner-no account filed
May 2020Thunderstorm WindSumner-no account filed
April 2019Thunderstorm WindSumner-no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindSumner-no account filed
April 2017HailSumner-no account filed
August 2017Thunderstorm WindSumner-no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindSumner-no account filed
May 2016HailSumner-no account filed
September 2016Thunderstorm WindSumner-no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindSumner-no account filed
April 2008HailSumner-no account filed
March 2005HailSumner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Noble 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
Petes Corner2.2 miles10
Bills Corner3.5 miles10
Drace4.7 miles9
Black Bear5.4 miles9
Otoe5.6 miles9
Morrison6.2 miles10
McMahon6.6 miles9
Perry9.1 miles9

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 SumnerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7637940The 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 1100862. 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.