BlockFrom the record
One of 52 National Register listings published here for Muskogee County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Oktaha School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Off U.S. 69, Oktaha, 74450
- When was it listed? August 1978
- Category. building
- Census division. Muskogee Southwest
- National Register reference number. 78002242 - 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
8 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Oktaha School between 2006 and 2012, burning about 6,004 acres in total. 1 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 | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 700 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | HONEY SPRINGS |
| 15 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.4 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | DUMP 2 |
| 21 June 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 700 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | RENTIESVILLE FIRE |
| 18 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,250 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | DIRTY CREEK FIRE |
| 15 April 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 115 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | RATTLESNAKE MOUNTAINS |
| 14 February 2008 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | BLUE BIRD |
| 7 January 2006 | Natural | 3,110 acres | Cherokee Nation Tribe | WAINWRIGHT 2 |
| 5 January 2008 | Debris and open burning | 97 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | SHADY GROVE |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Oktaha School: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Sandstone Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
23 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oktaha, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 15 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. The reports record 3 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 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oktaha | 3 hurt, $165,000 | Strong winds, likely in excess of 75 miles an hour, destroyed five mobile homes and damaged another six mobile homes in the Oktaha Mobile Home Park. There were three injuries serious enough to warrant hospitalization. At least three vehicles were crushed by homes knocked off their foundations. Numerous trees were also blown down. |
| March 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oktaha | $20,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree onto a mobile home. |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oktaha | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oktaha | - | Strong thunderstorm wind uprooted trees and snapped numerous large tree limbs in a broad swath from the west of Oktaha through the east of Oktaha. |
| September 2009 | Flash Flood | Oktaha | - | Heavy rain caused severe street flooding in a few blocks of Oktaha. Several county roads around Oktaha were also flooded causing postal service to be disrupted. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Oktaha | - | Heavy rains caused numerous roads to be flooded in and around Oktaha. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oktaha | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oktaha | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Oktaha | - | Isolated severe thunderstorms developed in northeast Oklahoma during the morning of May 31st. Quarter- size hail fell five miles east of Okmulgee, and dime-size hail fell at Morris and one mile south of Oktaha. |
| January 2024 | Hail | Oktaha | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Oktaha | - | no account filed |
| March 2014 | Hail | Oktaha | - | no account filed |
| March 2014 | Hail | Oktaha | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Oktaha | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Oktaha | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Oktaha | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Oktaha | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Oktaha | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Oktaha | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Oktaha | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Oktaha | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Oktaha | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Oktaha | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DuBois, W.E.B., School | 6.9 miles | 1984 | |
 | St. Thomas Primitive Baptist Church | 6.9 miles | 2004 |
| Reverend L.W. Thomas Homestead | 7.3 miles | 2018 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 78002242 in Record Group 79. |
| Muskogee County | All 52 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.