Armstrong Academy Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“Chahta Tamaha served as the capital of the Choctaw Nation from 1863 to 1883 in Indian Territory. The town developed initially around the Armstrong Academy, which was operated by Protestant religious missionaries from 1844 to 1861 to serve Choctaw boys.”
Wikipedia article Chahta Tamaha, Indian Territory, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Bryan County · listed in 1972 · category: Site.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 3 mi. NE of Bokchito, Bokchito, 74726
When was it listed? April 1972
Category. site
Census division. North Central Bryan
National Register reference number. 72001056 - 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

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Armstrong Academy Site between 2005 and 2007, burning about 747 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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	2
Smoking	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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 April 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Chickasaw Agency	ORE JAMES
5 March 2007	Debris and open burning	700 acres	Chickasaw Agency	ROBINSON ROAD
1 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	TERREL ROAD
8 January 2006	Smoking	7.0 acres	Talihina Agency	S.BOKCHIT2

Every fire recorded in Bryan 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 Armstrong Academy Site: 1 past producer. None of them 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Bryan County

Storms near this property

34 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bokchito, the town this property stands in, in 34 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 21 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Bokchito	$40,000	The roof was blown off a feed store. A car was damaged, and trees and power lines were downed.
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Bokchito	$25,000	A large barn was destroyed by straight line winds. Monetary damages were estimated.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Bokchito	$8,000	The majority of the wind damage occurred on the west side of town where a new tin roof was blown off a home. An outbuilding used as a fireworks stand was also damaged. A light pole was snapped in two. Numerous tree limbs and signs were also downed. An emergency manager, who was observing the storm, had his truck moved approximately 15 inches by the wind.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Bokchito	$5,000	Social media image showing damage to several large trees and a small greenhouse.
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Bokchito	$2,000	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Bokchito	$500	Severe thunderstorm winds downed large trees.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bokchito	$100	no account filed
April 2025	Tornado (EFU)	Bokchito	-	A storm chaser shared video of this tornado north of Bokchito. No damage was reported as the tornado did not appear to affect any structures, although some tree damage may have occurred. The path is based on detailed location and observational information provided by the storm chaser.
May 2023	Hail	Bokchito	-	Relayed photo from social media.
March 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Bokchito	-	No damage was reported.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Bokchito	-	Cherokee Lake Road South was closed due to flooding.
October 1994	Hail	Bokchito	-	A severe thunderstorm produced hail up to quarter-size in Bryan County.
April 2020	Hail	Bokchito	-	no account filed
March 2016	Hail	Bokchito	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Bokchito	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Bokchito	-	no account filed
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Bokchito	-	no account filed
March 2008	Hail	Bokchito	-	no account filed
March 2008	Hail	Bokchito	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Bokchito	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Bokchito	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Bokchito	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Bokchito	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Bokchito	-	no account filed
January 1998	Hail	Bokchito	-	no account filed
November 1996	Hail	Bokchito	-	no account filed
September 1996	Hail	Bokchito	-	no account filed
September 1996	Hail	Bokchito	-	no account filed
March 1995	Hail	Bokchito	-	no account filed
August 1994	Hail	Bokchito	-	no account filed
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Bokchito	-	no account filed
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Bokchito	-	no account filed
February 1993	Hail	Bokchito	-	no account filed
February 1993	Hail	Bokchito	-	no account filed

Every storm 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.

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
	Caddo Community Building	6.3 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72001056 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.
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.