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One of 33 National Register listings published here for Payne County · listed in 1978 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Irvings Castle
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 2.5 mi. (4 km) S of Ingalls, Ingalls, 74062
- When was it listed? February 1978
- Category. site
- Census division. Stillwater
- National Register reference number. 78002257 - 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
1 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Irvings Castle in 2012, burning about 1,106 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,106 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | STILLWATER COMPLEX |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 33 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Irvings Castle: 28 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ripley East | Copper | Occurrence | 1955 | |
| Ripley East Southeast | Copper | Occurrence | 1955 | |
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Stewart Rock Co. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Stewart Stone-Cushing | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unknown Limestone Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
3 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ingalls, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2021: 1 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Ingalls | $30,000 | A brief QLCS tornado significantly damaged three barns and a shop about a half mile east of Ingalls. |
| August 2019 | Flash Flood | Ingalls | $10,000 | Road washed out at the intersection of 44TH and Ripley as well as just east of intersection of Ripley and 32ND street. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Ingalls | - | 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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hopkins Sandstone House and Farmstead | 2.3 miles | 1979 | |
 | Jim Thorpe House | 5.8 miles | 1971 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 78002257 in Record Group 79. |
| Payne County | All 33 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.