Built in 1852. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
From the record
“Bloomfield Academy was a Chickasaw school for girls founded in 1852 by the Reverend John Harpole Carr, located in the Chickasaw Nation in Indian Territory, about 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of the present town of Achille, Oklahoma. A boarding school funded by both the Missouri Conference of the Methodist Church and the government of the Chickasaw Nation, it operated there until 1914, which a major fire destroyed most buildings.”
Wikipedia article Bloomfield Academy (Oklahoma), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 17 National Register listings published here for Bryan County · listed in 1972 · category: Site · built in 1852.
National Register reference number.72001055- 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
12 since 2005
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Bloomfield Academy Site
between 2005 and 2019, burning about 10,309 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
5
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Arson/incendiarism
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Debris and open burning
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
11 workings within 5 miles of Bloomfield Academy Site: 10 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Achille, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 15 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 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.
Wind damage, in the form of a few downed trees and power lines, occurred between Achille and Colbert, south toward the Red River. The worst of the damage occurred near the intersection of River and Chickasaw roads. Monetary damage estimates were not available.
Several large, healthy trees were uprooted and blown over. One home sustained minor roof/shingle damage, one barn was destroyed and another had the roof and one wall blown down. Power lines and a power pole were also blown over on Highway 78. No injuries were reported at the residence and monetary damages were estimated.
Severe thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 to 70 mph tore the roof off a mobile home and damaged numerous other roofs across town. Several large trees were toppled.
Severe thunderstorms producing large hail moved across southern Oklahoma during the evening of the 3rd. In Comanche County, Ping-Pong ball-size hail lasted for almost 10 minutes and was reported covering the ground southwest of Lawton at 1900 CST. In Stephens County hail as large as baseballs was reported one mile south of Comanche and five miles east of Comanche. In the town of Comanche itself, police car windshields were broken out by large hail.
Severe thunderstorm winds in Bryan County downed power lines and uprooted trees in Achille and blew two barns down nine miles east-southeast of Durant.
Strong to severe thunderstorms developed along a cold front then moved across central and southern Oklahoma the evening of the 6th. Severe thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn in Oklahoma County, blew portions of roofs off of two homes in Lincoln County, broke limbs off trees in Comanche County, and damaged a sign in Stephens County. Hail as large as nickels was also reported.
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.
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.
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