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White Eagle, Oklahoma

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Ponca City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74601. It stands on Salt Fork Arkansas River. The Survey maps it on the Ponca City SE quadrangle. 520 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 948 feet above sea level.

White Eagle within Kay County

On record in White Eagle

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

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

148 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of White Eagle between 2001 and 2020, burning about 1,471 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 31 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
Debris and open burning44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Arson/incendiarism31
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
6 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresPawnee AgencyWHITE EAGLE
3 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePawnee AgencyOAKLAND
3 September 2011Natural2.0 acresPawnee AgencyLIGHTNING
22 August 2012Fireworks5.0 acresPawnee AgencyMYSTERY
2 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresPawnee AgencyBLUE ELK #2
17 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acrePawnee AgencyBURN PIT
16 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acrePawnee AgencyPLEASENTVIEW 2
13 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresPawnee AgencyCLINIC

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kay County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of White Eagle: 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Nowa Sanitary Landfill SiteSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kay County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Eagle in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 1997Thunderstorm WindWhite Eagle$10,000A barn was destroyed by severe thunderstorm winds.
April 2024HailWhite Eagle-Social media report. Hail size increased from golf ball to baseball size at this location between 2134-2138 LST.
May 2010HailWhite Eagle-The hail was reported approximately 8 miles south of Ponca City.
May 2024HailWhite Eagle-no account filed
May 2016HailWhite Eagle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kay 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
Ponca City6.8 miles11
McFadden Cove10.0 miles15
Autwine11.3 miles11
Tonkawa13.3 miles11
Kildare14.0 miles11
Tyner14.6 miles11
Uncas15.1 miles12
Kaw City16.6 miles14

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 White EagleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7994656The 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 1102141. 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.