Okfuskee County Courthouse

Built in 1926. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Okfuskee County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1926.

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.
Address. 209 North 3rd St., Okemah, 74859
When was it listed? August 1984
Category. building
Also known as. County Courthouses of Oklahoma TR
Census division. Okemah
When was it built? 1926
National Register reference number. 84003377 - 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

88 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Okfuskee County Courthouse between 1996 and 2020, burning about 7,522 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 24 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	32
Arson/incendiarism	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	1
Other causes	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
24 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Okmulgee Field Office	HICKS
7 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Okmulgee Field Office	SUGAR WATER
7 August 2008	Natural	4.1 acres	Okmulgee Field Office	LEFT ARMPIT
5 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Okmulgee Field Office	HARJO
21 August 2010	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Okmulgee Field Office	BROWN
19 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	65 acres	Okmulgee Field Office	RENOLYDS
14 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Okmulgee Field Office	JULIAN
8 July 2008	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Okmulgee Field Office	BLACK RANGER

Every fire recorded in Okfuskee County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Okfuskee County Courthouse: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unknown Sandstone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Okfuskee County

Storms near this property

60 of 105 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Okemah, the town this property stands in, in 105 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 48 hail, 42 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 4 tornado. 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
August 2007	Flash Flood	Okemah	$250,000	Heavy rain caused severe flooding in and around Okemah. Six people were evacuated from homes isolated by high water. Four homes had water in them. Water was up to five feet deep on some roads. Approximately fifteen roads had to be closed due to high water. Rural roads were severely damaged.
September 1999	Hail	Okemah	$200,000	There were several reports of large hail from Okemah to Clearview. Following are individual reports:Time (CDT) Location Size700 PM Okemah .88"707 PM Okemah 1"710 PM 3 E Okemah 2.75"715 PM Okemah 1.75"720 PM Clearview 1"The hail in Okemah broke and cracked windows in several residences, and many vehicles sustained hail damage.
April 2023	Hail	Okemah	$150,000	Large hail nearly the size of grapefruit damaged homes, businesses, and vehicles.
May 1995	Tornado (F0)	Okemah	$50,000	A tornado touched down briefly three miles east southeast of Okemah at 1638CST. This F0 tornado damaged several homes and downed power lines.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	$50,000	no account filed
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	$40,000	An 18-wheeler semi-truck was blown over as it was traveling east on I-40 near mile marker 223.
May 2022	Hail	Okemah	$35,000	Tennis ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
May 2025	Hail	Okemah	$30,000	Ping pong ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
March 2020	Tornado (EF1)	Okemah	$30,000	This tornado developed south of I-40 and west of the N3760 Road. It moved east-northeast destroying a large outbuilding, damaging a home, and snapping large tree limbs as it crossed S 14th Street. Another outbuilding was destroyed east of S 14th Street, and large tree limbs were snapped as it crossed Highway 27. The tornado appeared to dissipate before crossing the N3780 Road, south of the E1100 Road. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 90 to 100 mph.
October 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	$25,000	Emergency management reported trees and power lines blown down by strong thunderstorm wind in and south of town. Minor structural damage was also done to mobile homes.
September 1999	Lightning	Okemah	$25,000	A house in Okemah was struck by lightning, igniting the back portion of the house and destroying the back portion of the residence.
March 2023	Hail	Okemah	$20,000	Ping pong ball size hail damaged vehicles and homes.
May 2020	Hail	Okemah	$20,000	Golf ball size hail damaged vehicles and homes.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	$20,000	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several large trees and destroyed a greenhouse.
August 2001	Lightning	Okemah	$20,000	Lightning struck a house near Okemah. The resulting fire was restricted to the attic of the home, but smoke and water damaged most of the structure.
April 2013	Hail	Okemah	$15,000	no account filed
April 2003	Lightning	Okemah	$10,000	Lightning struck the roof of a home west of Okemah. The lightning made a hole in the roof and then traveled through the electrical system of the house where it exited an outlet and started a bed on fire. The fire department was immediately called and the fire did not spread beyond the bedroom.
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour damaged utility barns, blew down trees and blew down power poles.
May 2008	Hail	Okemah	$10,000	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Okemah	$10,000	no account filed
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm wind blew trees and power lines.
February 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew the roof off a barn.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour damaged a few outbuildings and blew down trees.
May 2015	Hail	Okemah	$5,000	no account filed
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	$3,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated in excess of 60 miles an hour blew down power lines and large tree limbs.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	$3,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs and damaged the roof of a house.
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	$2,000	no account filed
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	$1,600	A large tree limb was blown down in Noble Park. A business sign was folded over.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down a power pole.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs and a power pole.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour damaged the canopy on the north side of a gas station.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	$200	A tree and several tree branches were blown down in Okemah.
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	$100	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	$100	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs.
November 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	$100	A large tree was blown over in Okemah.
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	$100	A tree was blown into the intersection of South Second and Birch Streets, blocking traffic.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	$100	Tree knocked down by thunderstorm winds
March 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	$100	no account filed
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	-	Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
April 2024	Flash Flood	Okemah	-	Several roads were flooded in and around Okemah.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	-	Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
May 2017	Flood	Okemah	-	Highway 48 was flooded and closed one mile south of I-40 at the Canadian River Bridge.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees in Okemah.
May 2015	Flood	Okemah	-	A section of Highway 27 was washed out south of Okemah. Much of Highway 48 was closed throughout Okfuskee County.
May 2015	Flash Flood	Okemah	-	Several roads in and around town were flooded and closed. Homes were evacuated due to rapidly rising water.
April 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
June 2013	Flash Flood	Okemah	-	Numerous streets were flooded in and around town. Some were closed due to high water.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down numerous large tree limbs.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	-	Large tree limbs were snapped by strong thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated to 60 mph blew down large tree limbs.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Okemah	-	Heavy rain caused water to flow over Highway 62.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a pair of large trees.
March 2005	Tornado (F0)	Okemah	-	Several storm chasers witnessed a tornado northeast of town. The tornado remained over open country and produced no known damage.
March 2005	Tornado (F0)	Okemah	-	Storm chasers observed a second tornado touchdown from the supercell. The tornado remained over open country and produced no known damage.
April 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down numerous large tree limbs.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Okemah	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
June 2002	Flash Flood	Okemah	-	A thunderstorm produced 2.17 inches of rain at Okemah in a short time. This rain rain caused severe street flooding. A few streets on the north side of the city had to be barricaded.
November 1999	Hail	Okemah	-	Location: near OK Hwy 48 and I-40
May 1998	Hail	Okemah	-	Hail accumulated to depths of 1 to 2 inches
May 1998	Hail	Okemah	-	At intersection of SH 48 and I-40

Every storm recorded in Okfuskee 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Okemah Armory	0.3 miles	1998
	Abe Lincoln Trading Company	7.1 miles	2023

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84003377 in Record Group 79.
Okfuskee 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.