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The Holy City, Oklahoma

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Northwest Comanche census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73507. It lies near Mount Roosevelt. The Survey maps it on the Mount Scott quadrangle.

The Holy City within Comanche County

On record in The Holy City

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

9 surveys from 22 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

239 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 239 fires within 5 miles of The Holy City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 87,834 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 37 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
Recreation and ceremony79
Natural38
Arson/incendiarism37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Debris and open burning23
Equipment and vehicle use18
Fireworks5
Smoking3
Firearms and explosives use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
9 September 1998Smokingunder an acreWichita Mountains National Wildlife RefugeQUANAH
7 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,000 acresWichita Mountains National Wildlife RefugeFTSILL9/7
7 September 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWichita Mountains National Wildlife RefugeBURNT TRUC
6 September 2009Natural137 acresWichita Mountains National Wildlife RefugeJED STRIKE
6 September 2009Fireworksunder an acreWichita Mountains National Wildlife RefugePARALLEL FOREST
5 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWichita Mountains National Wildlife RefugeARSON1
3 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWichita Mountains National Wildlife RefugeDORISCF2
27 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use28 acresAnadarko AgencyRHOADES RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Comanche County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of The Holy City: 11 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Lead, Copper, Copper, Lead, Zinc. 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
Cross Mountain-1Copper, Lead, ZincPast Producer1909, 1915
Hardin Prospect-1Copper, Lead, ZincPast Producer1902, 1903, 1909
Parker ProspectLead, Copper, Silver, Zinc, GoldPast Producer1902, 1907, 1912
Three Boys ClaimCopper, NickelPast Producer1902, 1903
Unknown Clay PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Clark and Bennett ProspectLead, Copper, SilverPast Producer1903
Pearson ProspectCopper, SilverPast Producer1904, 1906
Buckhorn ProspectCopperPast Producer1903, 1904
Hardin Prospect-2CopperPast Producer1902, 1904

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
Meers2.8 miles13
Cache Wye3.0 miles24
Lawtonka Acres4.0 miles13
Medicine Park4.7 miles22
Duhringe Pass5.4 miles16
Indiahoma Wye6.9 miles24
Cache8.1 miles24
Four Mile Crossing8.6 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 Q122568915The 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 1100376. 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.