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Dog Creek School

Built in 1936. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Dog Creek School, near Shady Point, Oklahoma, is a one-room school built in 1936 as a Works Progress Administration project. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”

Wikipedia article Dog Creek School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Le Flore County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1936.

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.
  • Address. SW of Shady Point, Shady Point, 74956
  • 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. Panama-Bokoshe
  • When was it built? 1936
  • National Register reference number. 88001399 - 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

163 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Dog Creek School between 1992 and 2019, burning about 12,464 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 60 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/undetermined75
Arson/incendiarism60
Debris and open burning16
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
4 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20426
3 September 2005Arson/incendiarism15 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20401
3 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined90 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2002Smoking3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20424
11 September 2004Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresTalihina AgencySE329
9 August 2001Natural1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
8 August 2005Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20378

Every fire recorded in Le Flore County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dog Creek School: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Sandstone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Le Flore County

Storms near this property

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shady Point, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 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
April 1996Thunderstorm WindShady Point$100no account filed
March 1993Thunderstorm WindShady Point-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Le Flore 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Trahern's Station4.4 miles1972
Summerfield School5.6 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88001399 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Le Flore CountyAll 22 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.