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Photograph of St. Joseph's Catholic Church
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St. Joseph's Catholic Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Joseph's Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic church building located at 290 NW Church Street in Krebs, Oklahoma, United States. The first church building was constructed of wood in 1886.”

Wikipedia article St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Krebs, Oklahoma), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Pittsburg County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Off OK 31, Krebs, 74554
  • When was it listed? November 1980
  • Category. building
  • Census division. McAlester
  • National Register reference number. 80003296 - 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

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of St. Joseph's Catholic Church between 1992 and 2019, burning about 6,687 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 38 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
Arson/incendiarism38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning16
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 September 2002Natural1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 2011Arson/incendiarism10 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20425
9 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTalihina AgencyALDERSON`
5 August 2011Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTalihina AgencyBREWER FIRE
25 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20459
20 August 2010Debris and open burning40 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20187
19 August 2002Misuse of fire by a minor8.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
12 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20384

Every fire recorded in Pittsburg County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of St. Joseph's Catholic Church: 2 past producers, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rice PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pittsburg County

Storms near this property

19 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Krebs, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 2025Thunderstorm WindKrebs$50,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down multiple large trees, blew down power poles and power lines, and damaged homes and outbuildings.
June 2009HailKrebs$50,000no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindKrebs$40,000A severe thunderstorm produced strong winds which destroyed a concrete outbuilding and damaged another building in the northwest part of the town of Krebs.
March 2024HailKrebs$30,000Golf ball size hail damaged vehicles, homes, and businesses.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindKrebs$25,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour ripped a 60 foot tin roof off a home.
May 2025HailKrebs$20,000Half dollar size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindKrebs$10,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 75 miles an hour blew down power lines causing much of Krebs to be without power.
June 2018HailKrebs$5,000no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindKrebs$3,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees and power poles.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindKrebs$2,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree onto power lines.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindKrebs$1,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour damaged an outbuilding.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindKrebs$600A tree and a power line were blown over in the High Hill area.
May 2017Flash FloodKrebs-Severe flooding was reported in Krebs with several roads under water and flood waters threatening homes.
August 2017Flash FloodKrebs-Portions of some roads were flooded near Krebs, including Highway 270. A swift water rescue was conducted on Krebs Lake Road.
April 2021HailKrebs-no account filed
April 2011HailKrebs-no account filed
April 2007HailKrebs-no account filed
March 2006HailKrebs-no account filed
May 2004HailKrebs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pittsburg 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

6 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
Hokey's Drugstore0.4 miles1979
Mass Grave of the Mexican Miners1.4 miles1980
L'Ouverture Gymnasium1.9 miles2006
Jeff Lee Park Bath House and Pool2.5 miles1988
McAlester Armory2.5 miles1988
Jeff Lee Park Bath House and Pool2.6 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80003296 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pittsburg CountyAll 32 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.