Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
From the record
“The Wheeler No. 1 Oil Well was the first well drilled in the Drumright-Cushing Oil Field of northeast Oklahoma, near Drumright. The success of the well, drilled in 1912 by Thomas Baker Slick, Sr., led to the development of the Cushing field and gave impetus to the early development of Oklahoma oilfields.”
Wikipedia article Wheeler No. 1 Oil Well, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 32 National Register listings published here for Creek County · listed in 1983 · category: Site.
National Register reference number.83002083- 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
31 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Wheeler No. 1 Oil Well
between 2006 and 2020, burning about 10,710 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
10
Arson/incendiarism
7
Debris and open burning
6
Power generation/transmission/distribution
5
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Natural
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Wheeler No. 1 Oil Well: 2 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Corundum, Clay, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Drumright, the town this property stands in, in 51 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 25 thunderstorm wind, 22 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 lightning.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Thunderstorm wind resulted in at least $531,000 in debris removal and damage to the utility infrastructure across the county during this severe thunderstorm. Some people were without power for over a week.
Lightning started a fire at a tank battery of a petroleum company. The fire spread from the tank it first struck and ultimately destroyed nine steel and fiberglass tanks.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour caused extensive damage in Drumright. Large trees were blown down, several carports were destroyed, shingles were peeled off of several homes, privacy fences were blown down and the fire station lost part of its roof.
A wind gust from the outflow of a thunderstorm was measured at 62 miles an hour. No rain fell, but several trees and power lines were blown down. One tree fell on a house.
Thunderstorms during the morning of July 19th produced very heavy rainfall which resulted in flash flooding in western Osage and western Creek Counties of northeast Oklahoma. 2 feet of water covered U.S. Highway 60 west of Burbank, and street flooding occurred in Drumright.
Isolated severe thunderstorms developed in eastern Oklahoma during the evening of March 6th. Dime-size hail fell six miles southwest of Muse, two miles south of Bengal, and at Pocola. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 mph 10 miles east of Drumright, and these winds downed numerous large tree limbs.
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.
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.
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