Yost, Oklahoma

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Stillwater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74032. The Survey maps it on the Stillwater North quadrangle.

Yost within Payne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1893 USGS Stillwater quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Enid quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Enid quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Stillwater North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1990 USGS Enid quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Yost between 2003 and 2012, burning about 7,040 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Natural	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
4 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6,887 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	GLENCOE
10 August 2006	Natural	150 acres	Pawnee Agency	FAIRGROUND RD
1 August 2003	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Pawnee Agency	WOMACK
28 July 2003	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Pawnee Agency	HORSECHIEF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Payne County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Yost: 7 occurrences, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Burwell Prospect	Copper, Silver, Gold	Past Producer	1901, 1907, 1918
Unknown Clay Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Council Creek	Copper, Silver	Occurrence	Malachite
R.B. French Prospect	Copper, Silver	Past Producer	1907
Morrison Southeast-1	Copper	Occurrence	1975
Morrison Southeast-2	Copper	Occurrence	1975
Stillwater East-1	Copper	Occurrence	1975
Stillwater East-2	Copper	Occurrence	1975
Stillwater East-3	Copper	Occurrence	1975
Stillwater East-4	Copper	Occurrence	1972

Every working recorded in Payne 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Glencoe	4.9 miles	11
Stillwater	6.4 miles	10
West Point	8.4 miles	11
Ingalls	9.7 miles	11
Mehan	11.4 miles	11
Ripley	13.8 miles	11
Marena	13.8 miles	11
Perkins	15.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1100059. 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.