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Tuskahoma

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“The Choctaw Capitol Building is a historic building built in 1884 that housed the government of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma from 1884 to 1907. The building is located in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, two miles north of the community of Tuskahoma.”
Wikipedia article Choctaw Capitol Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Pushmataha County · listed in 1970 · category: Building.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2 mi. N of Tuskahoma, Tuskahoma, 74574
When was it listed? July 1970
Category. building
Census division. North Pushmataha
National Register reference number. 70000537 - 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

799 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 799 fires within 5 miles of Tuskahoma between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,871 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 431 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	431
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	113
Debris and open burning	112
Equipment and vehicle use	73
Natural	30
Recreation and ceremony	24
Smoking	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Fireworks	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
8 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
7 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Talihina Agency	TENT CITY
7 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
6 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Talihina Agency	VILLAGE
6 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	10406
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
5 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
5 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Talihina Agency	0428

Every fire recorded in Pushmataha County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Tuskahoma: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Clayton No. 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Pushmataha County

Storms near this property

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tuskahoma, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 10 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash 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
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Tuskahoma	-	Numerous large trees were uprooted near the Choctaw Nation Council House.
December 2015	Flood	Tuskahoma	-	Portions of US-271 between Tuskahoma and Albion were closed due to flooding.
December 2015	Flood	Tuskahoma	-	Portions of Highway 271 were closed due to flooding.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Tuskahoma	-	The Oklahoma Mesonet station near Clayton measured 66 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Tuskahoma	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large trees on Highway 271 and Four Star Ranch Road.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Tuskahoma	-	Heavy thunderstorm rains caused a few roads in and around Tuskahoma to flood.
April 1999	Hail	Tuskahoma	-	Location: on the Latimer/Pushmataha county line
July 1994	Hail	Tuskahoma	-	Thunderstorms in southeast Oklahoma during the evening of the 17th produced hail up to quarter-size.
April 2017	Hail	Tuskahoma	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Tuskahoma	-	no account filed
March 2008	Hail	Tuskahoma	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Tuskahoma	-	no account filed
February 2000	Hail	Tuskahoma	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Tuskahoma	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	Tuskahoma	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	Tuskahoma	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pushmataha 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
	Frisco Railroad Depot	5.5 miles	2024
	Clayton High School-Auditorium	5.5 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000537 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pushmataha County	All 9 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.