Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
From the record
“The Cushing American Legion Building is an American Legion hall located at 212 S. The building was built in 1924 to serve as a meeting place for American Legion Post 108, which was organized by World War I veterans.”
Wikipedia article Cushing American Legion Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 33 National Register listings published here for Payne County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.03000514- 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
12 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Cushing American Legion Building
between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2,226 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
6
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Arson/incendiarism
2
Debris and open burning
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
9 workings within 5 miles of Cushing American Legion Building: 8 past producers, 1 occurrence.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Cushing, the town this property stands in, in 88 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 40 thunderstorm wind, 39 hail, 4 lightning, 3 tornado.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
Davis Weather Station observation. Station mounted at an elevation of 31-feet. In addition, numerous 2436-inch diameter trees uprooted along with a roof completely removed from a brick building. Time is radar estimated.
Severe thunderstorm winds destroyed a hay barn just south of Cushing. Debris from the barn was then blown onto a truck, breaking its windows, and into a neighboring house. Also, power poles were broken and numerous limbs were downed throughout Cushing.
Straight line winds caused minor roof damage in the form of shingles blown off rooftops. Carports were also damaged. Several trees were blown down, along with numerous branches. Four power poles were blown down. The worst of the damage occurred over a two mile long and a half mile wide path. This included the northern portion of Cushing. Monetary damage estimates were not available.
Isolated severe thunderstorms developed across Payne County during the early evening hours of the 4th. The storms produced dime size hail and damaging winds. Severe thunderstorm winds ripped the front door off the Police Department building at Cushing.
Isolated severe thunderstorms developed across Payne County during the early evening hours of the 4th. The storms produced dime size hail and damaging winds. Severe thunderstorm winds ripped the front door off the Police Department building at Cushing.
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.
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.
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