American Legion Hut

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Cherokee County · listed in 2006 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Tehlequah City Park, jct. of E Shawnee St. and N. Brookside Ave., Oklahoma, 74464
When was it listed? August 2006
Category. building
Census division. Tahlequah
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 06000798 - 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

366 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 366 fires within 5 miles of American Legion Hut between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,563 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 94 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	103
Debris and open burning	95
Arson/incendiarism	94
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Natural	17
Recreation and ceremony	10
Smoking	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Other causes	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
8 September 2000	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
8 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
7 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
6 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Cherokee Nation Tribe	TAHLEQUAH CEMETERY
5 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30469
4 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30467
30 September 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
3 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Cherokee 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 American Legion Hut: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, 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
Charley Ryals Chert Pit	Silica	Past Producer
Unknown Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
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	Producer
Unknown Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Cherokee Supreme Court Building	under 500 feet	1974
Tahlequah Armory	under 500 feet	1994
Cherokee National Jail	under 500 feet	1974
Tahlequah Carnegie Library	0.3 miles	2003
French-Parks House	0.3 miles	1985
M.E. Franklin House	0.3 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000798 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cherokee County	All 20 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.