Tahlequah, Oklahoma

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• Cherokee County

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 12 of 16 shown

• Alston-Bedwell Houselisted 2005
• Cherokee Female Seminarylisted 1973
• Cherokee National Jaillisted 1974
• Cherokee Supreme Court Buildinglisted 1974
• First Cherokee Female Seminary Sitelisted 1974
• M.E. Franklin Houselisted 2006
• French-Parks Houselisted 1985
• Indian University of Tahlequahlisted 1976
• Dr. Irwin D. Loeser Log Cabinlisted 1978
• Rosamundlisted 2006
• Tahlequah Armorylisted 1994
• Tahlequah Carnegie Librarylisted 2003

Every listing in Cherokee County

Surveyed buildings and structures 5 records

• Cherokee Female Seminary, Northeastern Oklahoma State University Campus, Tahlequahfederal building survey, 11 photographs
• Cherokee National Capitol Building, 101-29 South Muskogee Avenue, Tahlequahfederal building survey, 8 photographs
• Cherokee National Penitentiary, 124 East Choctaw Street, Tahlequahfederal building survey, 3 photographs
• Cherokee Supreme Court Building, 130 East Keetoowah Street, Tahlequahfederal building survey, 7 photographs
• Dr. Irvin D. Leoser Log Cabin, 119 West Smith Street, Tahlequahfederal building survey, 4 photographs

Tahlequah grew from 15,753 to 16,209 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

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.

• 1898 USGS Tahlequah quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Tahlequah quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
• 1905 USGS Tahlequah quadrangle1:125000
• 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
• 1972 USGS Tahlequah quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1978 USGS Stilwell quadrangle1:100000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 368 fires within 5 miles of Tahlequah between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,537 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 94 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Green Country Estates
• Indian Meadows
• Tsa La Gi Indian Village
• Park Hill
• Gabriel
• Metory

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Tahlequah: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Cherokee County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tahlequah in 243 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 108 thunderstorm wind, 79 hail, 26 flash flood, 24 flood. The reports record 4 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Cherokee County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1098721. 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.