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One of 52 National Register listings published here for Muskogee County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1910.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Taft City Hall
Built in 1910. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Elm and Seminole Sts., Taft, 74463
- When was it listed? September 1984
- Category. building
- Also known as. Historic Government Buildings in Oklahoma's All-Black Towns TR
- Census division. Muskogee
- When was it built? 1910
- National Register reference number. 84003330 - 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
10 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Taft City Hall between 1994 and 2012, burning about 243 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 April 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Chickasaw Agency | HWY69 |
| 4 March 2012 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 30142 |
| 4 March 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 100 acres | Talihina Agency | not named |
| 13 February 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20047 |
| 12 February 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 14 acres | Okmulgee Field Office | INBETWEEN FIRE |
| 3 December 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 40 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20279 |
| 31 October 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 30494 |
| 6 January 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Cherokee Nation Tribe | STATE33 |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Taft City Hall: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Shale Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
19 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Taft, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 11 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2001 | Hail | Taft | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taft | $200 | Numerous tree limbs were blown down in Taft, causing a power outage. |
| June 2019 | Flood | Taft | - | The Arkansas River near Muskogee rose above its flood stage of 28 feet at 9:15 am CDT on June 23rd. The river crested at 33.07 feet at 9:45 pm CDT on the 24th, resulting in moderate flooding. Agricultural land and a boating marina were flooded. The river fell below flood stage at 10:15 pm CDT on the 28th. |
| May 2019 | Flood | Taft | - | The Arkansas River near Muskogee rose above its flood stage of 28 feet at 3:00 am CDT on May 21st. The river crested at 46.39 feet at 9:00 am CDT on the 26th, and crested a second time 46.00 feet at 7:30 am CDT on the 30th, both crests resulting in major flooding. The crest of 46.39 feet was the second highest crest on record, and the crest at 46.00 feet was the third highest crest on record. Very severe flooding occurred from Muskogee to Webbers Falls. Homes and businesses were flooded, and numerous roads were closed. Monetary damage from this flood is unknown. The river remained above flood stage through the end of May, crested again at 32.63 feet at 3:15 pm CDT on June 7th, and then finally fell below flood stage at 7:30 am CDT on June 12th. |
| June 2019 | Flood | Taft | - | The Arkansas River near Muskogee rose above its flood stage of 28 feet at 3:00 am CDT on May 21st. The river crested at 46.39 feet at 9:00 am CDT on the 26th, and crested a second time 46.00 feet at 7:30 am CDT on the 30th, both crests resulting in major flooding. The crest of 46.39 feet was the second highest crest on record, and the crest at 46.00 feet was the third highest crest on record. Very severe flooding occurred from Muskogee to Webbers Falls. Homes and businesses were flooded, and numerous roads were closed. Monetary damage from this flood is unknown. The river remained above flood stage through the end of May, crested again at 32.63 feet at 3:15 pm CDT on June 7th, and then finally fell below flood stage at 7:30 am CDT on June 12th. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taft | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew trees down. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taft | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Taft | - | Location: Taft Lake |
| April 2009 | Hail | Taft | - | no account filed |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taft | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Taft | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Taft | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Taft | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Taft | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Taft | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taft | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Taft | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Taft | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Taft | - | 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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moton School Campus Historic District | 0.2 miles | 2025 | |
 | Union Agency | 7.2 miles | 1970 |
| "Spirit of the American Doughboy" Statue | 7.4 miles | 2018 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 84003330 in Record Group 79. |
| Muskogee County | All 52 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.