Spencer Academy

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Choctaw County · listed in 1975 · category: Site.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 sitess as contributing to the listing.
Address. 10 mi. N of Fort Towson, Fort Towson, 74523
When was it listed? May 1975
Category. site
Census division. Hugo
National Register reference number. 75001562 - 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

171 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Spencer Academy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,694 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 46 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
Debris and open burning	60
Arson/incendiarism	46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	38
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Natural	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 2005	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	10488
6 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	23 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	10532
6 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
4 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
29 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Talihina Agency	54
23 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	10553
23 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	10408
2 September 2004	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	10314

Every fire recorded in Choctaw County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Spencer Academy: 5 producers, 2 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Two State Crushing Co Sandstone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown Sandstone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Choctaw Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
County Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Four Unnamed Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Green Construction Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
H D Youngman Construction Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Choctaw 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
	Speer School	2.5 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001562 in Record Group 79.
Choctaw County	All 12 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.