Cambria School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Latimer County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.

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. NE of Hartshorne, Hartshorne, 74578
When was it listed? September 1988
Category. building
Also known as. WPA Public Bldgs., Recreational Facilities and Cemetery Improvements in Southeastern Oklahoma, 1935-1943 TR
Census division. Wilburton
National Register reference number. 88001394 - 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

413 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 413 fires within 5 miles of Cambria School between 1992 and 2019, burning about 8,934 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 137 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	142
Arson/incendiarism	137
Debris and open burning	72
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Natural	14
Smoking	12
Recreation and ceremony	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4

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
5 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20468
5 September 2002	Smoking	3.5 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
30 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20387
3 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
3 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	2.5 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20219
29 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	2.5 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20383
28 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
26 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20372

Every fire recorded in Latimer 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 Cambria School: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Dolese Bros Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Dolese Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Latimer 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Bowers School	5.2 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001394 in Record Group 79.
Latimer County	All 20 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.