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Oklahoma College for Women Historic District

Built in 1908. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“The University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma (USAO) is a public liberal arts college in Chickasha, Oklahoma. It is the only public college in Oklahoma with a strictly liberal arts-focused curriculum and is a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges.”
Wikipedia article University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Grady County · listed in 2001 · category: District · built in 1908.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Grand Ave., 19th St., Alabama Ave., and alley west of 15th St., Chickasha, 73018
When was it listed? September 2001
Category. district
Census division. Chickasha
When was it built? 1908
National Register reference number. 01000950 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Oklahoma College for Women Historic District between 2001 and 2008, burning about 306 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
3 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	213 acres	Anadarko Agency	SPANKY
4 July 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Anadarko Agency	BIDDEL
30 October 2008	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Anadarko Agency	KEEHKO
19 January 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Chickasaw Agency	LUCKY

Every fire recorded in Grady County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Oklahoma College for Women Historic District: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Grady County

Storms near this property

60 of 71 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chickasha, the town this property stands in, in 71 storm reports between 1993 and 2007: 36 hail, 27 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 tornado. The reports record 16 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Chickasha	12 hurt, $50,000	no account filed
May 1999	Tornado (F2)	Chickasha	4 hurt, $500,000	Tornado A8. See summary at end of May 3rd storm reports.
August 2007	Flash Flood	Chickasha	$1,000,000	The Chickasha PD received major damage due to flooding, including the phone system, the communication system, data system, and the heating and air conditioning systems. Several businesses sustained damage. The River Bend Golf course received significant damage, including several greens destroyed and part of a golf cart path ripped up. It was reported that new flooring would be required at the Chickasha YMCA due to flooding in almost every room, as well as significant damage to the roof. The Grady County Courthouse received some minor flood damage. Performance Plus also received significant damage. HWY 37 was closed due to several feet of water covering the roadway one mile west of Tuttle. Also in Tuttle, the bridge used by the Stillwater Central Railroad received some damage and became impassable. In Minco, the Buggy Creek Bridge had to be closed due to water running over the top of it. Monetary damages were estimated.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Chickasha	$350,000	Extensive damage occurred in the River Bend Housing addition. A damage area one to two miles long (north to south) and two to three miles wide (east to west) was reported. Seventeen homes in the addition were damaged. One home that was partially built was completely destroyed. Another 5 homes sustained major damage, with half of the roof of one home completely ripped off. Eleven homes sustained minor damage mainly consisting of shingle damage, damage to garage doors, and windows broken. The Friends School Cafeteria nearby also sustained major roof damage. Widespread tree damage was also reported in the area.
March 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Chickasha	$150,000	Severe thunderstorm winds blew out numerous windows, downed large trees, and destroyed several signs and awnings in the downtown business district. Utility poles were downed, damaging and cutting the power to the city's water treatment facility. Nearby a carport was lifted and blown onto a mobile home and a storage shed was blown away. Just south of town a mobile home was overturned by the severe thunderstorm winds.
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Chickasha	$100,000	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Chickasha	$71,500	no account filed
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Chickasha	$60,000	Twenty trees were blown down. Several power poles and lines were downed. The new scoreboard at Memorial Stadium was blown over as well. Monetary damages were estimated.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Chickasha	$50,000	Severe thunderstorm winds blew 2/3 of the roof off a convenience store, flipped a travel trailer onto a car, lifted another trailer and blew it onto a fence, and blew the roofs off several barns.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Chickasha	$30,000	Power poles were downed from mile marker 83 to 89 on Interstate 44. The interstate was closed from 0130 to 0315 CDT. Near mile marker 85, big tree limbs were downed. A small water tower and outbuildings were also blown over on the south side of the interstate near mile marker 90.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Chickasha	$20,000	A tree was blown over onto a house and van, and power lines were downed.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Chickasha	$8,000	Several large trees were blown over.
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Chickasha	$6,000	no account filed
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Chickasha	$2,000	no account filed
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Chickasha	$2,000	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Chickasha	$1,000	Trees approximately 12 inches in diameter were blown down in the north central portion of town.
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Chickasha	$500	Severe thunderstorm winds downed a power pole on Highway 277 near Chickasha.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Chickasha	-	US HWY 81 was closed between Almar Drive and Country Club Road due to very heavy rainfall.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Chickasha	-	Wind was measured by the Oklahoma mesonet.
September 2005	Hail	Chickasha	-	Hail was reported on Highway 92.
May 2004	Hail	Chickasha	-	Hail was observed on Highway 81.
May 2001	Tornado (F0)	Chickasha	-	This tornado was observed by two storm chasers and described as forming in a field with a full condensation funnel extending to the ground.
April 2000	Flash Flood	Chickasha	-	Several streets and county roads were flooded.
October 2000	Flash Flood	Chickasha	-	Numerous streets in downtown were closed due to high water.
May 1999	Tornado (F0)	Chickasha	-	Tornado A7. See summary at end of May 3rd storm reports.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Chickasha	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Chickasha	-	no account filed
June 2007	Heavy Rain	Chickasha	-	no account filed
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Chickasha	-	no account filed
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Chickasha	-	no account filed
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Chickasha	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Chickasha	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Chickasha	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Chickasha	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Chickasha	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Chickasha	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Chickasha	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Chickasha	-	no account filed
March 2003	Hail	Chickasha	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Chickasha	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Chickasha	-	no account filed
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Chickasha	-	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Chickasha	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Chickasha	-	no account filed
October 2001	Hail	Chickasha	-	no account filed
March 2000	Hail	Chickasha	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	Chickasha	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	Chickasha	-	no account filed
December 1999	Hail	Chickasha	-	no account filed
December 1999	Hail	Chickasha	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Chickasha	-	no account filed
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Chickasha	-	no account filed
October 1998	Hail	Chickasha	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Chickasha	-	no account filed
March 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Chickasha	-	no account filed
March 1998	Hail	Chickasha	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Chickasha	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Chickasha	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Chickasha	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Chickasha	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grady County

Newspapers printed here

6,324 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 6,324 issues, 6,324 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Newspaper	Published
The Chickasha Daily Express	1899 to Current

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Griffin House	1.3 miles	2014
New Hope Baptist Church	1.5 miles	2003
Chickasha Downtown Historic District	1.7 miles	2005
Verden Separate School	1.7 miles	2005
US Post Office and Federal Courthouse	1.8 miles	1994
Grady County Courthouse	1.8 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000950 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grady County	All 12 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.