Shady Point School

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

From the record

“The Shady Point School, located on the northeastern edge of the community of Shady Point in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, was built in 1936 as a Works Progress Administration project. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Shady Point 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. NE edge of the community, 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. 88001405 - 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

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Shady Point School between 1992 and 2019, burning about 5,577 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 16 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	28
Arson/incendiarism	16
Debris and open burning	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1

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 2011	Arson/incendiarism	35 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20429
8 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20470
30 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	640 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
2 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
19 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,700 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	CALHOUN
13 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
30 August 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
16 August 2012	Natural	10 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20162

Every fire 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Shady Point	$100	no account filed
March 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Shady 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

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
Skullyville County Jail	4.3 miles	1980
Terry House	5.7 miles	1980
LeFlore County Courthouse	5.8 miles	1984
Poteau Community Building	5.8 miles	1988
Hotel Lowrey	6.0 miles	2020
Williams School	6.7 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001405 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Le Flore County	All 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.
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.