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Taupa, Oklahoma

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Lawton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73505. The Survey maps it on the Taupa quadrangle.

Taupa within Comanche County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

18 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Taupa between 2005 and 2019, burning about 4,754 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Fireworks5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning4

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
23 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined26 acresAnadarko AgencyQUAIL SPRINGS FIRE
5 July 2014Fireworksunder an acreAnadarko AgencyROCKET R
4 July 2005Fireworks10 acresAnadarko AgencyTEX
11 July 2009Fireworks2.0 acresAnadarko AgencyQUAIL SPRINGS
1 July 2009Fireworks1.0 acresAnadarko AgencyF.B.
23 June 2010Fireworks1.0 acresAnadarko AgencySOPAPITTY
7 April 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresAnadarko AgencyRED ELK
24 April 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAnadarko AgencyGRIFFIN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Comanche County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Taupa: 16 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Dolomite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper. 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
Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wolf Creek-1CopperOccurrence1936
Unknown Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Limestone PitDolomite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Limestone PitDolomite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Limestone PitDolomite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Limestone PitDolomite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Comanche 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
Artillery Village5.7 miles16
Kiowa and Commanche Agency (historical)6.3 miles13
Lawton6.4 miles13
Cache6.5 miles24
Four Mile Crossing6.6 miles16
Sneed Acres6.8 miles16
Corral Crossing8.1 miles16
Grenade Crossing8.2 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122569383The 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 1100876. 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.