Koweta Mission Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Koweta Mission Site is a site near Coweta, Oklahoma, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The mission was started in 1843 by Presbyterian minister Robert Loughridge at Coweta, then the capital of the Creek Nation, Indian Territory.”
Wikipedia article Koweta Mission Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Wagoner County · listed in 1973 · category: Site.

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 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1 mi. S of Cowetah off OK 58B, Cowetah, 74429
When was it listed? June 1973
Category. site
Census division. Coweta
National Register reference number. 73001571 - 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

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Koweta Mission Site between 2010 and 2017, burning about 660 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

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
23 February 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	480 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	141ST
3 December 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	180 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	BUTTERFIELD STAGE

Every fire recorded in Wagoner County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Koweta Mission Site: 1 past producer, 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.

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

Every working recorded in Wagoner 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

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
First Presbyterian Church of Coweta	1.4 miles	2003
Red Bird City Hall	4.0 miles	1984
Miller-Washington School	4.0 miles	1984
Van Tuyl Homeplace	5.7 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73001571 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wagoner County	All 19 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.