Bessie Poe Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Johnston County · listed in 1981 · category: Building.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Poe, Bessie, Hall - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Murray State College campus, Tishomingo, 73460
When was it listed? September 1981
Category. building
Census division. Tishomingo
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 81000464 - 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

32 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Bessie Poe Hall between 1993 and 2020, burning about 4,564 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Fireworks	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 August 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Chickasaw Agency	SECOND STREET
28 August 2006	Natural	4.0 acres	Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge	ROUND BALE
26 August 2006	Natural	2.0 acres	Chickasaw Agency	ROUND BALE
21 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Chickasaw Agency	SINGLE TREE
11 August 2011	Natural	1.5 acres	Chickasaw Agency	BARN DOWN FIRE
10 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	59 acres	Chickasaw Agency	CHOPSAW 2
10 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	300 acres	Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge	TELLER MOUNTAIN
10 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21 acres	Chickasaw Agency	ADAMS

Every fire recorded in Johnston County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Bessie Poe Hall: 11 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite. 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
Unknown Granite Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Unknown Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Johnston County

Storms near this property

60 of 78 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tishomingo, the town this property stands in, in 78 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 37 thunderstorm wind, 26 hail, 9 flash flood, 4 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths and 4 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
October 2018	Flood	Tishomingo	2 killed	Two young men, ages 17 and 18, went into Pennington Creek during Sunday (10/07/2018) afternoon. The young men were reported missing. A search and rescue team was organized and the bodies were found a few days later. The EM noted the creek was about six feet over its banks on Sunday.
April 2001	Tornado (F2)	Tishomingo	4 hurt, $2,500,000	This tornado formed over northern portions of Lake Texoma, then tracked northeastward for 16 miles before crossing into western Atoka County. About 5 miles east of Tishomingo in Johnston County, 2 injuries, both requiring hospital care, occurred when a mobile home was lofted and deposited upside-down about 40 yards from its original location. In addition, a frame home 1 mile east of Milburn was severely damaged when the roof was completely removed. Across the remainder of the damage path in Johnston County, 3 additional mobile homes were destroyed, and 21 other structures, including 1 business and 2 churches, sustained damage.
May 2025	Flash Flood	Tishomingo	$50,000	Multiple sections of 7 Springs Road were washed out due to flooding. The event time is approximate.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	$50,000	A large tree limb fell through the roof of a house, and a tree fell on two vehicles.
May 2025	Flash Flood	Tishomingo	$25,000	A relayed image shows a section of Neshoba Street, between Main Street and 12th Street, washed out due to flooding. The event time is approximate.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	$15,000	A relayed image shows portions of a large brick support wall collapsed due to thunderstorm winds. The event time is estimated from radar observations.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	$10,000	Tree down on vehicle at Byrd and 12TH street.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	$10,000	Half of roof blown off business. Large tree branches down. Numerous power outages. Time estimated.
November 2018	Tornado (EF0)	Tishomingo	$6,000	A small tornado from a quasi-linear convective system moved through portions of Tishomingo. It moved north, then northeast from the southern part of town to northeast of downtown. There were areas of roof and tree damage along the path, and some minor damage at Tishomingo Elementary School.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	$5,100	Severe thunderstorm winds blew a tree onto a gas meter, destroyed a dugout at the Tishomingo ballpark, and blew the roof off a mobile home north of town.
December 2015	Flash Flood	Tishomingo	$5,000	Floods washed out a culvert and a few roads.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	$5,000	Minor damage occurred to a roof. Monetary damages were estimated.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	$5,000	Severe thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn, tore shingles from a house roof, and downed large trees.
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	$5,000	no account filed
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	$4,000	Two trees and a power line were blown down. Monetary damages were estimated.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	$2,000	Portion of a metal roof torn off of a storage facility. Time estimated from radar.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	$2,000	Four to six inch diameter elm tree limbs were downed. Monetary damages were estimated.
October 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	$2,000	no account filed
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	$1,500	Several trees were downed and windows broken.
March 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	$1,000	Winds downed trees and powerlines.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	$1,000	Trees and power lines were downed.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	$800	A five-inch diameter tree limb was blown down at the Tishomingo National Wildlife Refuge. Monetary damages were estimated.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	$750	A large tree was reported down.
March 2016	Hail	Tishomingo	$500	Hail combined with wind damaged a subway sandwich shop. The front window was broken out.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	$10	Strong winds blew down two eight-inch diameter poplar trees.
April 2026	Hail	Tishomingo	-	The report was relayed through mPING.
April 2026	Hail	Tishomingo	-	The location is approximate.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	-	Several trees were blown down in and around the community of Tishomingo. Event time is estimated from radar observations.
May 2025	Flash Flood	Tishomingo	-	Roadway flooding occurred near the intersection of Main Street and Johnston Street in the community of Tishomingo. This was likely due to water rise from a tributary to Pennington Creek. The event time is approximate.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	-	Power line on a home.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	-	Tree damage reported in numerous locations across the town of Tishimingo.
April 2020	Hail	Tishomingo	-	EM relayed report in NWSchat.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	-	Transformer was damaged and power out in Tishomingo.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	-	Powerlines downed at 7th and Neshoba.
September 2020	Flash Flood	Tishomingo	-	Main street shut down due to flooding, traffic being diverted.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	-	Trees downed between 6TH and 8TH on Byrd street in Tishomingo.
April 2019	Flash Flood	Tishomingo	-	JCSO reports water over roadway on Hwy 78 at Bullard Chaple road, 4 miles east of Tishomingo.
September 2019	Flood	Tishomingo	-	Flooding was reported at 900 N Kemp Avenue.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	-	Trees down in Tishomingo, roadway between 6TH and 7TH street and highway 377 is blocked.
May 2019	Flash Flood	Tishomingo	-	Highway 78 at Bullard Chapel Road has water 3 inches deep over it.
May 2017	Tornado (EFU)	Tishomingo	-	A television storm chaser observed a tornado touch down northwest of Tishomingo. No damage was reported and the specific path was estimated.
March 2016	Hail	Tishomingo	-	No damage was reported.
August 2012	Hail	Tishomingo	-	No damage was reported.
August 2012	Hail	Tishomingo	-	No damage was reported.
April 2011	Tornado (EF0)	Tishomingo	-	This tornado was a continuation of the tornado that began 3 NNW of Madill in Marshall County. It continued to produce tree damage after crossing Lake Texoma into southern Marshall County.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	-	A tree was blown onto a bridge. The bridge did not sustain any damage. Monetary damages were estimated.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	-	Wind was measured by the Oklahoma mesonet.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	-	Wind was measured by the Oklahoma mesonet.
December 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	-	Wind was measured by the Oklahoma mesonet.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	-	Wind was measured by Oklahoma mesonet.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	-	Wind was measured by Oklahoma mesonet.
June 2001	Flash Flood	Tishomingo	-	Numerous roads were closed due to high water.
September 2001	Flash Flood	Tishomingo	-	A residential street was closed due to high water.
April 1995	Hail	Tishomingo	-	Severe thunderstorms moved across southwestern and south-central Oklahoma during the afternoon and early evening, producing two tornados, damaging winds, large hail, and flash flooding. A second area of thunderstorms moved across northern Oklahoma during the afternoon and produced large and damaging hail. With the storms in southwest Oklahoma two tornados were reported. The first occurred in Tillman County where a small, brief F0 tornado (gustnado) spun up on the leading edge of a thunderstorm three miles southwest of Tipton. No damage was reported. The second tornado, an F1, occurred three miles east of Faxon in Comanche County around 1600 CST. Along a path about one-quarter mile long and 33 yards wide, two barns were destroyed, a propane tank was blown over, tops of trees were twisted and snapped, and power poles were downed. Also with these storms in southwest Oklahoma, baseball-size hail fell in Indiahoma in Comanche County, broke out car windows east of Duke in Jackson County, and broke out house windows three miles northeast of Tipton in Tillman County. Flash flooding also became a problem as water was reported up to car headlights in Comanche in Stephens County. As the storms moved eastward into south-central Oklahoma, thunderstorm winds increased and some damage was reported. A barn was destroyed by severe thunderstorm winds near Faxon in Comanche County, and wind speeds as high as 72 mph were reported south of Duncan in Stephens County. In Carter County five miles north of Lone Grove, winds destroyed three barns and a wellhouse and did slight damage to three houses. In northern Oklahoma wind-driven hail in severe thunderstorms caused both crop and property damage. Quarter- to half-dollar-size hail in Garfield County broke out house windows three miles south of Fairmont and five miles southeast of Garber. In Noble County six miles south of Billings house windows were broken out by golf ball-size hail. Many wheat fields in Garfield and Noble Counties were also destroyed.
April 2026	Hail	Tishomingo	-	no account filed
March 2024	Hail	Tishomingo	-	no account filed
March 2023	Hail	Tishomingo	-	no account filed
March 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Tishomingo	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Tishomingo	-	no account filed
April 2016	Hail	Tishomingo	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnston 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

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Tishomingo Armory	0.2 miles	1994
Tishomingo City Hall	0.9 miles	1975
White House of the Chickasaws	7.6 miles	1971
Chickasaw National Capitols	7.8 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 81000464 in Record Group 79.
Johnston County	All 5 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.