Noble: Barite & Rose Rock Rockhounding in Cleveland County, Oklahoma

Plan your visit

Permission required before collecting

County

Cleveland County

State

Oklahoma

Nearest road

East Chestnut Street

Postcode

73068

Coordinates

35.13933, -97.39469

Coordinates are approximate. Confirm the exact ground in the RockHoundR app, where land overlays show which agency manages the area.

Land & collecting status

Permission required before collecting

Requires landowner or agency permission before any collecting. Do not enter without explicit authorization.

Access note: The classic rose rock sites around Noble are on private land and now largely closed, so ask permission before collecting on any private ground. Road ditches and construction cuts sometimes expose fresh material along public right-of-ways. For a reliable public collecting option nearby, see Lake Stanley Draper, and stop at the Timberlake Rose Rock Museum in Noble for context.

Public-land rules vary by agency, season, and field office. The RockHoundR app pulls live BLM, USFS, NPS, and tribal overlays so you can see exactly which agency manages the ground at this spot.

Best time to visit Noble

Comfortable months (45 to 90°F highs)

Best months: September to June. Typical highs run 92°F in midsummer and 50°F in midwinter, with winter lows near 27°F.

Climate normals: NOAA 1991-2020 monthlies, NORMAN 3SSE station (4 mi away).

Geology at Noble

This spot sits on Terrace Deposits, mapped as coarse alluvium and fine alluvium that formed within roughly the last 3 million years. Loose deposits like these are float-collecting ground: erosion keeps moving durable rocks and minerals into gravel bars, cutbanks, and washes.

Mapped unit

Terrace Deposits

Age

3 Ma to present (Pleistocene)

Rock types

coarse alluvium and fine alluvium

Elevation

1,200 ft

Geologic mapping via Macrostrat and the underlying state geological survey maps (CC BY 4.0). Bedrock at the surface can vary within a mapped unit.

Sources & verification

Spot details combine the public RockHoundR location dataset, normalized mineral labels, agency land-status checks in the app, and community submissions. Coordinates are approximate until verified in the field.

• Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge, selenite digging
• Oklahoma Geological Survey
• Ouachita National Forest
• Community submissions reviewed against published agency rules