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A. J. Mason Building

Built in 1912. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Mason Building is a single-story brick building that is the only remaining original structure in Tullahassee, Oklahoma. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places August 5, 1985.”

Wikipedia article A. J. Mason Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Wagoner County · listed in 1985 · category: Building · built in 1912.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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.
  • Listed as. Mason, A. J., Building - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Lincoln St., Tullahassee, 74454
  • When was it listed? August 1985
  • Category. building
  • Census division. South Wagoner
  • When was it built? 1912
  • National Register reference number. 85001743 - 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

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of A. J. Mason Building in 2012, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning1

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
2 March 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30123

Every fire recorded in Wagoner County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of A. J. Mason Building: 5 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Arkola Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Clay Davault PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Frank Livingston Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Joe Allen Dredge & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sinor Sand Co Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wagoner County

Storms near this property

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tullahassee, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2016: 9 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
October 1998Tornado (F0)Tullahassee$5,000The same parent thunderstorm that produced a 27-mile tornado track through Okfuskee and Okmulgee Counties produced another more short-lived tornado just southeast of Tullahassee. The tornado itself produced a swath of damage through a forested area and caused roof damage to one house. The parent thunderstorm also produced winds that knocked down trees in Tullahassee around 1230 AM CDT.
October 1998Thunderstorm WindTullahassee$800Trees were uprooted and a skylight was broken.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindTullahassee$100Several large tree limbs down
July 2016Thunderstorm WindTullahassee-Storm spotters measured thunderstorm wind gusts to 90 mph.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindTullahassee-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
October 1998Funnel CloudTullahassee-Location: along US Hwy 69 at the Arkansas River
March 2013HailTullahassee-no account filed
January 2008HailTullahassee-no account filed
May 1999HailTullahassee-no account filed
December 1999HailTullahassee-no account filed
April 1997HailTullahassee-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindTullahassee-no account filed
November 1995HailTullahassee-no account filed
December 1995HailTullahassee-no account filed
December 1995HailTullahassee-no account filed
November 1995HailTullahassee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wagoner 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

1 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
Jamison Cemetery4.5 miles2012

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85001743 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wagoner 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.