Pusley's Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“Pusley's Station was a stage stand on the old Butterfield Overland Mail route in Indian Territory. It was located in what is now Latimer County, Oklahoma, on the south side of Gains Creek.”
Wikipedia article Pusley's Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Latimer 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 2 structuress, 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2 mi. SW of Higgins, Higgins, 74536
When was it listed? April 1972
Category. site
Census division. South Latimer
National Register reference number. 72001068 - 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

262 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 262 fires within 5 miles of Pusley's Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 43,487 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 116 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	116
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	79
Debris and open burning	43
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	5
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20415
9 September 2005	Debris and open burning	9.0 acres	Talihina Agency	ANDERSON C
8 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	10540
8 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.1 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20409
30 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.1 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20444
30 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
26 September 2013	Debris and open burning	73 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
2 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	10216

Every fire recorded in Latimer County

Storms near this property

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Higgins, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 2008	Tornado (EF2)	Higgins	4 hurt, $1,000,000	This tornado continued from Pittsburg County. As it moved into Latimer County, the tornado destroyed a double-wide mobile home, severely damaged another home and barn, and rolled an F350 pickup truck about 50 yards. Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted as the tornado approached Yanush. In Yanush, about 50 homes were damaged, eight of those were destroyed along with one business. Numerous sheds, barns, and outbuildings were destroyed. Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Higgins	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees and power lines.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Higgins	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour uprooted a large tree and destroyed an outbuilding.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Higgins	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree.
December 2015	Flood	Higgins	-	Portions of Highway 1 southeast of Hartshorne were closed due to flooding.
August 2005	Hail	Higgins	-	A nearly stationary supercell thunderstorm produced hail for about 20 minutes, the largest of which was baseball size.
June 1998	Hail	Higgins	-	Reported on the Pittsburg/Latimer County line
April 2014	Hail	Higgins	-	no account filed
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Higgins	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Higgins	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Higgins	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Higgins	-	no account filed
November 1998	Funnel Cloud	Higgins	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Latimer 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72001068 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Latimer County	All 20 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.
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.