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.
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.
Sumner Schoollisted 1996 · 0.1 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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.
- 1955 USGS Enid quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Enid quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Morrison quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1990 USGS Enid quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 2006Regional 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/incendiarism | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 March 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Pawnee Agency | QUAIL |
| 23 March 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 218 acres | Pawnee Agency | GREASY CREEK |
| 27 February 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,200 acres | Pawnee Agency | JASON STEVENS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 19 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greasy Creek | Copper | Occurrence | 1979 | |
| Unknown Shale Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sandstone Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sandstone Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sandstone Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sandstone Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sandstone Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sandstone Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
31 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF1) | Sumner | $30,000 | A car was flipped, a garage door damaged, and numerous trees were downed by a tornado east of Perry. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Sumner | $30,000 | This 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 2016 | Tornado (EF2) | Sumner | $10,000 | This 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 1999 | Lightning | Sumner | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Hail | Sumner | - | The report was relayed through mPING. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | - | Red Rock (REDR) Mesonet observation. |
| May 2022 | Tornado (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 2019 | Tornado (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 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | - | No damage was reported. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | - | No damage was reported. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | - | No damage reported. |
| November 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | - | No damage reported. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | - | Mesonet station at Red Rock recorded a gust to 66 mph at 7:25pm LST. Also recorded 60 mph at 7:30pm LST. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | - | Wind gust was measured by the Oklahoma mesonet. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Sumner | - | Severe thunderstorms in central Oklahoma during the afternoon hours on the 10th produced hail up to golf ball-size. |
| February 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | - | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | - | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | - | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | - | no account filed |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Sumner | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Sumner | - | no account filed |
| September 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sumner | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Sumner | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Sumner | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Petes Corner | 2.2 miles | 10 | |
| Bills Corner | 3.5 miles | 10 | |
| Drace | 4.7 miles | 9 | |
| Black Bear | 5.4 miles | 9 | |
| Otoe | 5.6 miles | 9 | |
| Morrison | 6.2 miles | 10 | |
| McMahon | 6.6 miles | 9 | |
| Perry | 9.1 miles | 9 |
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 Sumner | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7637940 | 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 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.



