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One of 21 National Register listings published here for Ottawa County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Tri-State Zinc and Lead Ore Producers Association Office
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 508 N. Connell Ave., Picher, 74360
- When was it listed? March 2003
- Category. building
- Census division. Quapaw
- National Register reference number. 03000097 - 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
192 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 192 fires within 5 miles of Tri-State Zinc and Lead Ore Producers Association Office between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,276 acres in total. 43 started naturally. 37 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 59 |
| Natural | 43 |
| Debris and open burning | 41 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 37 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 50 acres | Miami Agency | SNAKE PIT |
| 29 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.2 acres | Miami Agency | TOMLISON |
| 29 September 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Miami Agency | TURKEY RUN |
| 22 September 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Miami Agency | VINE |
| 1 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Miami Agency | PIUS |
| 31 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.3 acres | Miami Agency | FISHERS |
| 29 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 5.5 acres | Miami Agency | CRAWFISH |
| 19 August 2012 | Natural | 2.3 acres | Miami Agency | MINERAL HIEGHTS |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 142 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 142 workings within 5 miles of Tri-State Zinc and Lead Ore Producers Association Office: 128 past producers, 12 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Humble Sand Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| James Orr Chubb Land | Zinc | Past Producer | 1935 | |
| Central Mill & Semple | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Epperson Pit and Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Bingham Sand & Gravel Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Blue Goose | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Bryan Chat Company Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Dale Epersons Trucking Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Eagle-Picher Mining Co Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Earnie Graham Chat Co Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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
5 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | John Patrick McNaughton Barn | 6.9 miles | 1991 |
 | Peoria Indian School | 7.2 miles | 1983 |
| Peoria Tribal Cemetery | 7.3 miles | 1983 | |
| Peoria Indian School | 7.4 miles | 1983 |
 | George L. Coleman Sr. House | 7.6 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 03000097 in Record Group 79. |
| Ottawa County | All 21 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.