Initial Point

Built in 1870. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“Initial Point, on the boundary of Garvin County, Oklahoma and Murray County, Oklahoma, about 7.5 miles (12.1 km) west of Davis, Oklahoma, is a historic surveying initial point which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.”
Wikipedia article Initial Point (Oklahoma), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Garvin County · listed in 1970 · category: Object · built in 1870.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. About 7.5 mi. W of Davis on Garvin, Davis, 73030
When was it listed? October 1970
Category. object
When was it built? 1870
National Register reference number. 70000533 - 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

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Initial Point between 1996 and 2015, burning about 12,095 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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	7
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
19 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Chickasaw Agency	CARLENE
19 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Chickasaw Agency	BRIAN
19 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Chickasaw Agency	MEL
19 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Chickasaw Agency	EVAN
19 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Chickasaw Agency	ANDY
16 August 2006	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Chickasaw Agency	MERIDIAN
15 July 2006	Natural	2.1 acres	Chickasaw Agency	BOWLING PIN
31 March 2015	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Chickasaw Agency	TRESSPASS

Every fire recorded in Garvin 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 Initial Point: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Sooner Rock & Sand Co Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Garvin 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

1 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
	Fort Arbuckle Site	1.4 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000533 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Garvin County	All 12 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.