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Photograph of St. Thomas Primitive Baptist Church
Photograph by Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Thomas Primitive Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“Thomas Primitive Baptist Church is a historic church building in Summit, Oklahoma. The church was built in 1922 for the Primitive Baptist congregation and is the oldest surviving structure in Summit, a historically all-black town.”

Wikipedia article St. Thomas Primitive Baptist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Muskogee County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 5th St., N of Jct. With Chimney Mountain Rd., Summit, 74401
  • When was it listed? March 2004
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Muskogee Southwest
  • National Register reference number. 04000123 - 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

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of St. Thomas Primitive Baptist Church between 2006 and 2012, burning about 963 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreOkmulgee Field OfficeDUMB LUCK
18 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use88 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeBAMBI
15 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeCHIMNEYMTN
9 February 2008Arson/incendiarism126 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeDRAGON SLAYER
8 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined700 acresCherokee Nation TribeOKTAHA RD
5 January 2008Arson/incendiarism28 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeMONKEY PICKLE
5 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresCherokee Nation TribeSTATE 304
20 January 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOkmulgee Field OfficePEAK

Every fire recorded in Muskogee County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of St. Thomas Primitive Baptist Church: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Muskogee County

Storms near this property

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summit, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2024Thunderstorm WindSummit$25,000Strong thunderstorm wind damaged carports and outbuildings, and snapped large tree limbs.
March 2000HailSummit-no account filed
May 2000HailSummit-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Muskogee County

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
DuBois, W.E.B., Schoolunder 500 feet1984
Reverend L.W. Thomas Homestead0.5 miles2018
Andrew W. Robb House5.7 miles1982
Beth Israel Temple6.0 miles2014
Muskogee County Courthouse6.1 miles1984
Muskogee Depot and Freight District6.1 miles2006

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04000123 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Muskogee CountyAll 52 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.