Grayson Jail

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.

From the record

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Okmulgee County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. approx. 200 ft west, intersection of Perkins St. and Finley St., Grayson, 74437
When was it listed? January 2024
Category. building
Census division. Henryetta
National Register reference number. 100009891 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

59 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Grayson Jail between 1998 and 2020, burning about 12,148 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 25 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	25
Debris and open burning	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Other causes	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	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
7 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Deep Fork National Wildlife Refuge	COALTON STRIKE
3 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
1 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	96 acres	Okmulgee Field Office	QUILT BARN
6 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Deep Fork National Wildlife Refuge	DEEP FORK OFFICE
3 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	67 acres	Okmulgee Field Office	TRACTOR
29 July 2012	Debris and open burning	350 acres	Deep Fork National Wildlife Refuge	LOBLOLLY FIRE
20 July 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Okmulgee Field Office	HITCH BALER
12 July 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Deep Fork National Wildlife Refuge	COALTON#2

Every fire recorded in Okmulgee 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 Grayson Jail: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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 Sandstone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Okmulgee County

Storms near this property

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grayson, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
December 2015	Flood	Grayson	-	Portions of Highway 266 were closed due to flooding.
May 2003	Tornado (F0)	Grayson	-	A F0 tornado touched down 3 miles northeast of Grayson and traveled one mile producing tree damage before lifting just inside the McIntosh county border.
May 2025	Hail	Grayson	-	no account filed
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Grayson	-	no account filed
March 2002	Hail	Grayson	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Okmulgee 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Hugh Henry House	7.2 miles	1983
	First Presbyterian Church	7.6 miles	2026

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100009891 in Record Group 79.
Okmulgee County	All 23 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.