Park Hill Mission Cemetery

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: Site.

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 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. South Park Hill Rd, 0.5 mi. S of East Murrell Rd., Park Hill, 74464
When was it listed? December 2006
Category. site
Census division. South Cherokee
National Register reference number. 06001113 - 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

419 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 419 fires within 5 miles of Park Hill Mission Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,430 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 168 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
Arson/incendiarism	168
Debris and open burning	94
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	91
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Natural	16
Smoking	12
Recreation and ceremony	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 1998	Natural	1.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
9 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
6 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Cherokee Nation Tribe	TAHLEQUAH CEMETERY
6 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
5 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30469
3 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
29 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	4.6 acres	Cherokee Nation Tribe	RABBIT

Every fire recorded in Cherokee 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 Park Hill Mission Cemetery: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unknown Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	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	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this property

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Park Hill, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2014: 4 hail, 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Park Hill	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down power lines.
November 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Park Hill	-	,,,,,,,,Hail (1.75)
December 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Park Hill	-	,,,,,,,,Hail (1.75)
April 2014	Hail	Park Hill	-	no account filed
March 2000	Hail	Park Hill	-	no account filed
March 1999	Hail	Park Hill	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Park Hill	-	no account filed

Every storm 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
Murrell Home	under 500 feet	1970
Ross Cemetery	1.0 miles	2002
First Cherokee Female Seminary Site	1.4 miles	1974
Illinois Campground	3.2 miles	2004
Cherokee National Jail	4.3 miles	1974
French-Parks House	4.4 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06001113 in Record Group 79.
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.
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.