Fort Washita

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Fort Washita is the former United States military post and National Historic Landmark located in Durant, Oklahoma on SH 199. Established in 1842 by General Zachary Taylor to protect citizens of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations from the Plains Indians, it was later abandoned by Federal forces at the beginning of the American Civil War.”
Wikipedia article Fort Washita, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Bryan County · listed in 1966 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. SW of Nida on OK 199, Nida, 74701
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. district
Census division. Durant
National Register reference number. 66000626 - 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

11 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Fort Washita between 2006 and 2014, burning about 377 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	2
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
4 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chickasaw Agency	COTTON ROAD
14 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.2 acres	Chickasaw Agency	LINN
26 March 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge	ROCK CREEK
12 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chickasaw Agency	CHURCHROAD
7 February 2007	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge	MCADAMS
28 February 2008	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Chickasaw Agency	DEEP BRANCH
20 February 2014	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge	ROCK CREEK FIRE
9 January 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Chickasaw Agency	199

Every fire recorded in Bryan County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Fort Washita: 8 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur. 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
Madill Sulfur Plant	Sulfur	Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Bryan 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000626 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bryan County	All 17 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.