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Photograph of Fort Gibson
Photograph by Fred Q. Casler, Photographer, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Stone Barracks

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

From the record

“Fort Gibson is a historic military site next to the modern city of Fort Gibson, in Muskogee County Oklahoma. It guarded the American frontier in Indian Territory from 1824 to 1888.”

Wikipedia article Fort Gibson, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Muskogee County · listed in 1966 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

  • National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Address. Lee and Ash Sts., Fort Gibson, 74434
  • When was it listed? October 1966
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Muskogee
  • National Register reference number. 66000631 - 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

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Stone Barracks between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,578 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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/undetermined19
Arson/incendiarism12
Debris and open burning9
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use10 acresCherokee Nation TribeCORPS LINE
31 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
20 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
18 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30377
18 August 1999Misuse of fire by a minor18 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
14 August 1999Debris and open burning9.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
1 August 2012Arson/incendiarism50 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry40307
24 July 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Muskogee County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Stone Barracks: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
H D Youngman Contr Limestone PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Arkhola #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Arkhola Mine #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Arkhola Roberts QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cherokee Co Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Muskogee County

Storms near this property

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Gibson, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 3 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 1995HailFort Gibson-no account filed
October 1993HailFort Gibson-no account filed
October 1993HailFort Gibson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Muskogee 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Post Adjutant's Officeunder 500 feet1985
Post Blacksmith Shopunder 500 feet1985
Administration Building-Post Hospitalunder 500 feet1985
Commandant's Quarters0.1 miles1985
Officer's Quarters0.1 miles1985
Seawell-Ross-Isom House0.3 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 66000631 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Muskogee CountyAll 52 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.