Panola High School and Gymnasium

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. Off US 270, on the southside of the railroad tracks, Panola, 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. Red Oak
National Register reference number. 88001397 - 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

338 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 338 fires within 5 miles of Panola High School and Gymnasium between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,470 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 144 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	144
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	92
Debris and open burning	54
Equipment and vehicle use	26
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
9 September 2004	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20355
5 September 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	8.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
4 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20406
4 September 2005	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20403
30 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20432
29 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
27 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
27 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	80 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Latimer County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Panola High School and Gymnasium: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone. 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	Flagstone	Past Producer
Unknown Sandstone Pit	Flagstone	Past Producer
Unknown Sandstone Pit	Flagstone	Past Producer
Unknown Sandstone Pit	Flagstone	Past Producer
Unknown Sandstone Pit	Flagstone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Latimer County

Storms near this property

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Panola, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 14 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 3 tornado, 2 flash 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
May 1999	Tornado (F1)	Panola	$40,000	An F1 tornado touched down south of Panola and moved northeast to the Latimer-Haskell county line. Ths tornado continued to a point in extreme southern Haskell County about 2 miles south of Lequire. Near Panola, this tornado blew down large trees and power lines, and it caused roof damage. After Panola, the tornado primarily affected sparsely-populated hilly terrain.
April 2009	Hail	Panola	$20,000	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Panola	$15,000	Ping pong ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Panola	$15,000	Strong thunderstorm wind damaged the roof of a mobile home.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Panola	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm wind damaged a barn in Panola, and snapped numerous large tree limbs across the county.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Panola	$3,000	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Panola	$100	no account filed
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Panola	$100	no account filed
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Panola	$100	no account filed
May 2015	Tornado (EF0)	Panola	-	This tornado snapped large tree limbs as it moved north. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 75 to 85 mph.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Panola	-	Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs.
April 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Panola	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
May 2011	Tornado (EF1)	Panola	-	A tornado snapped or uprooted a number of large trees in the San Bois Mountains. This area was not reachable by road and thus was surveyed by a citizen on an ATV who found hundreds of trees downed in multiple directions. The exact beginning point and end point could not be accessed but this tornado was on the ground for at least 2.5 miles.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Panola	-	Several large trees were uprooted by strong thunderstorm winds.
May 2011	Flash Flood	Panola	-	Law enforcement reported several roads across the county were closed due to high water.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Panola	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down several large tree limbs.
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Panola	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a few trees.
June 1999	Flash Flood	Panola	-	US Hwy 270 near Panola was flooded.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Panola	-	,,,,,,,,Thunderstorm Winds (G52)
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Panola	-	Severe thunderstorms moved rapidly southeast across eastern Oklahoma during the late evening of July 1st and early morning of July 2nd and produced widespread damaging winds. Strong thunderstorm winds blew down a 90-foot tower just west of Sapulpa and blew down street signs and a 2-foot diameter tree in Bristow. A roof was also blown off a building in Bristow, where winds were estimated at 60 to 70 mph. Trees, power lines, and power poles were downed in Salina by 65-mph winds, and 65-mph winds in Beggs downed trees, signs, and large tree limbs. Power poles and large tree limbs were downed by 60-mph winds 3 miles east of Bernice, and power lines were downed by 60-mph winds in Quinton. Strong thunderstorm winds downed numerous large tree limbs just south of Okmulgee and at Panola. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 82 mph at the mesonet automated observing site in Foraker and to 78 mph at the mesonet automated observing site in Wynona. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 80 mph at Pawhuska, and to 75 mph 5 miles west of Pawhuska and 3 miles northwest of Coweta. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 to 70 mph at numerous other locations throughout eastern Oklahoma.
June 2017	Hail	Panola	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Panola	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Panola	-	no account filed
March 2002	Hail	Panola	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Panola	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	Panola	-	no account filed
March 1997	Hail	Panola	-	no account filed
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Panola	-	no account filed

Every storm 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Riddle's Station Site	2.4 miles	1972
Great Western Coal and Coke Company Building	4.5 miles	1980
Great Western Coal and Coke Company Mine No. 3	4.8 miles	1980
Rosenstein Building	4.8 miles	1980
Sacred Heart Catholic Church and Rectory	5.6 miles	1980
Mitchell Hall	6.2 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001397 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.
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.