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Rosenwald Hall

Built in 1921. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Seminole County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1921.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. College St., Lima, 74868
  • When was it listed? September 1984
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Educational Resources of All-Black Towns in Oklahoma TR
  • Census division. Wewoka
  • When was it built? 1921
  • National Register reference number. 84003427 - 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

113 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Rosenwald Hall between 1998 and 2020, burning about 10,122 acres in total. 7 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 burning45
Arson/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking2
Fireworks2
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresWewoka AgencyNARCOMY
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined19 acresWewoka AgencyBROTHER
27 September 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresWewoka AgencyPEPSI
18 September 2015Arson/incendiarism2.6 acresWewoka AgencyVAN FIRE
16 September 2017Fireworks1.0 acresWewoka AgencyMEKUSUKEY
15 September 2017Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresWewoka AgencyHARJOCHEE
12 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.8 acresWewoka AgencyNOONER
12 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryPALMER

Every fire recorded in Seminole County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Rosenwald Hall: 18 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Commercial Brick Co Shale PitClayProducer
United Clay Pipe Co Clay PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer
Wewoka Brick & Tile Co Clay PitClayPast Producer
Wewoka Brick & Tile Co Clay PitClayPast Producer
H and W PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Seminole County

Storms near this property

6 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lima, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLima-Relayed images showing several large (24 inch+ diameter) trees uprooted in the vicinity. Time is radar estimated.
October 2019HailLima-From Mping.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindLima-No damage reported.
March 2015HailLima-No damage was reported.
November 2018HailLima-no account filed
April 2013HailLima-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Seminole 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Sinclair Loading Rack3.1 miles1985
Home Stake Oil and Gas Company Building4.7 miles1986
Seminole Municipal Building4.9 miles2015
Van-Sanford Apartments5.1 miles2025
Seminole High School5.3 miles2022
W. E. Grisso Mansion5.9 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84003427 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Seminole CountyAll 19 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.