BlockBefore
Photograph of Sacred Heart
Photograph by User:Holt9359, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Sacred Heart Mission Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Sacred Heart is a small unincorporated community in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States. Established in 1879 by Father Isidore Robot as a Catholic mission on the old Pottawatomie reserve, it was originally named Sacred Heart Mission.”

Wikipedia article Sacred Heart, Oklahoma, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Pottawatomie County · listed in 1983 · category: Site.

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

The listing

  • Address. Off OK 39, Asher, 74849
  • When was it listed? September 1983
  • Category. site
  • Census division. Wanette-Asher
  • National Register reference number. 83002125 - 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

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Sacred Heart Mission Site between 1996 and 2020, burning about 686 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning10
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1

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
3 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresWewoka AgencyNEW HOLLAND
12 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined120 acresWewoka AgencyRODGERS
11 April 2003Debris and open burning8.0 acresSouthern Plains Regional OfficeSAMI
24 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresChickasaw AgencyGREENHOUSE
20 March 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWewoka AgencyCEDAR CREEK
11 March 2014Arson/incendiarism71 acresWewoka AgencyFRANK
28 February 2016Debris and open burning3.4 acresWewoka AgencySUMMERS
17 February 2020Debris and open burning1.1 acresWewoka AgencyDUNN

Every fire recorded in Pottawatomie County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Sacred Heart Mission Site: 22 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Konawa SouthwestCopperPast Producer1929
Corff Sand & Gravel Co Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Corff Sand & Gravel Co Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Corff Sand and Gravel Co Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Corff Sand and Gravel Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pottawatomie County

Storms near this property

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Asher, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 15 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
March 2000LightningAsher$2,000Lightning struck an oil tank battered, igniting a fire.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindAsher-Photo of metal shed debris.
May 2013HailAsher-The hail was reported along highway 39. No damage was reported.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindAsher-No damage was reported.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindAsher-Several trees were blown down near the Pontotoc county line. Monetary damages were estimated.
March 2024HailAsher-no account filed
October 2011HailAsher-no account filed
September 2009HailAsher-no account filed
March 2004HailAsher-no account filed
July 2004HailAsher-no account filed
July 2004HailAsher-no account filed
May 2003HailAsher-no account filed
May 2003HailAsher-no account filed
May 2001HailAsher-no account filed
May 2001HailAsher-no account filed
May 2001HailAsher-no account filed
September 2001HailAsher-no account filed
April 2000HailAsher-no account filed
July 1995HailAsher-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pottawatomie 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83002125 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pottawatomie CountyAll 18 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.