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Fullerton Dam

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Fullerton Dam is a ruined dam located 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Olustee, in Jackson County, Oklahoma. Fullerton built the dam across Turkey Creek in the mid-1890s to irrigate the vegetable crops on his 1,500 acres (610 ha) farm.”

Wikipedia article Fullerton Dam, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 1976 · category: Structure.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 7 mi. NW of Olustee, Olustee, 73532
  • When was it listed? November 1976
  • Category. structure
  • Census division. West Jackson
  • National Register reference number. 76001562 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Fullerton Dam: 5 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Dolomite, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Horse Branch-1CopperOccurrence1962
Unknown Dolomite PitDolomitePast Producer
Unknown Gypsum PitGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this property

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olustee, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 21 hail, 9 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008Thunderstorm WindOlustee$40,000A barn was destroyed. Monetary damages were estimated.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindOlustee$17,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindOlustee$5,000Grain bin blown was over at D street and W 5th.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindOlustee$3,000Numerous tree limbs were blown down. Monetary damages were estimated.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindOlustee$150Tree limbs, 3-4 inches in diameter, were downed.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindOlustee$10no account filed
May 2024HailOlustee-MPing report.
May 2024HailOlustee-MPing report.
May 2024HailOlustee-MPing report.
April 2019HailOlustee-Twitter report with picture. Time estimated by radar.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindOlustee-Measured by a personal weather station.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindOlustee-Measured by a personal weather station.
June 2010HailOlustee-Up to golf ball-size hail was reported for several minutes.
April 2005HailOlustee-Hail was observed on the west side of town.
June 2004Flash FloodOlustee-Flash flooding occurred during the evening of June 28 as rainfall totals up to 4 inches over Jackson County in southwestern Oklahoma. OK State Highway 6 was covered by floodwaters and mud at 8:30 pm CDT on June 28 at two locations on the highway about 1 mile north of Olustee, OK.
April 2024HailOlustee-no account filed
April 2023HailOlustee-no account filed
May 2019HailOlustee-no account filed
May 2017HailOlustee-no account filed
May 2017HailOlustee-no account filed
April 2016HailOlustee-no account filed
April 2014HailOlustee-no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindOlustee-no account filed
May 2008HailOlustee-no account filed
June 2008HailOlustee-no account filed
June 2008HailOlustee-no account filed
June 2008HailOlustee-no account filed
April 2006HailOlustee-no account filed
May 2002HailOlustee-no account filed
April 1994HailOlustee-no account filed
October 1994HailOlustee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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

3 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Perryman Ranch Headquarters6.3 miles2007
Olustee Public Library and Park6.5 miles2006
Frazer Cemetery6.9 miles2011

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76001562 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jackson CountyAll 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.
  • 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.