Olustee Public Library and Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 2006 · category: Building.

Sources: 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, 1 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. S side 4th St. bet. C & D Sts., Olustee, 73560
When was it listed? March 2006
Category. building
Census division. West Jackson
National Register reference number. 06000116 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Olustee Public Library and Park: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 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 Jackson County

Storms near this property

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olustee, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 21 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Olustee	$40,000	A barn was destroyed. Monetary damages were estimated.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Olustee	$17,000	no account filed
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Olustee	$5,000	Grain bin blown was over at D street and W 5th.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Olustee	$3,000	Numerous tree limbs were blown down. Monetary damages were estimated.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Olustee	$150	Tree limbs, 3-4 inches in diameter, were downed.
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Olustee	$10	no account filed
May 2024	Hail	Olustee	-	MPing report.
May 2024	Hail	Olustee	-	MPing report.
May 2024	Hail	Olustee	-	MPing report.
April 2019	Hail	Olustee	-	Twitter report with picture. Time estimated by radar.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Olustee	-	Measured by a personal weather station.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Olustee	-	Measured by a personal weather station.
June 2010	Hail	Olustee	-	Up to golf ball-size hail was reported for several minutes.
April 2005	Hail	Olustee	-	Hail was observed on the west side of town.
June 2004	Flash Flood	Olustee	-	Flash flooding occurred during the evening of June 28 as rainfall totals up to 4 inches over Jackson County in southwestern Oklahoma. OK State Highway 6 was covered by floodwaters and mud at 8:30 pm CDT on June 28 at two locations on the highway about 1 mile north of Olustee, OK.
April 2024	Hail	Olustee	-	no account filed
April 2023	Hail	Olustee	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Olustee	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Olustee	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Olustee	-	no account filed
April 2016	Hail	Olustee	-	no account filed
April 2014	Hail	Olustee	-	no account filed
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Olustee	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Olustee	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Olustee	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Olustee	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Olustee	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Olustee	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Olustee	-	no account filed
April 1994	Hail	Olustee	-	no account filed
October 1994	Hail	Olustee	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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

4 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
Cross S Ranch Headquarters	4.4 miles	2006
Fullerton Dam	6.5 miles	1976
Frazer Cemetery	6.6 miles	2011
Wichita Falls & Northwestern Railroad Passenger Depot	7.7 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000116 in Record Group 79.
Jackson 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.
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.