Platt National Park Historic District

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Murray County · listed in 2011 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. OK 7 at US 177, Sulpher, 73086
When was it listed? July 2011
Category. district
Also known as. Historic Park Landscapes in National and State Parks MPS
Census division. East Murray
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 11000628 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Platt National Park Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,649 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 35 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	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Debris and open burning	12
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	1
Smoking	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 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Chickasaw National Recreation Area	HARDEN
5 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.5 acres	Chickasaw National Recreation Area	WESTHUNT
21 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chickasaw National Recreation Area	SQUIRREL
12 September 1993	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Chickasaw National Recreation Area	TVBAUGH
11 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Chickasaw National Recreation Area	BROMIDE
9 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11 acres	Chickasaw National Recreation Area	WATERSON #2
9 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Chickasaw National Recreation Area	CEDAR BLUE 9
8 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Chickasaw National Recreation Area	MILLCREEK2

Every fire recorded in Murray County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Platt National Park Historic District: 11 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
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
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
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Murray 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
Murray County Courthouse	0.4 miles	1984
Historic Downtown Sulphur Commercial District	0.6 miles	2001
Sulphur Armory	0.7 miles	1994
Travertine Nature Center	1.3 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000628 in Record Group 79.
Murray County	All 6 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.