Summerfield School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Summerfield School, located off US 271 in Summerfield, Oklahoma, U.S., was built in 1937 as a Works Progress Administration project. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Summerfield School (Oklahoma), CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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. Off US 271, Summerfield, 74930
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
National Register reference number. 88001406 - 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

189 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Summerfield School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,405 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 88 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	88
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	63
Debris and open burning	22
Natural	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
7 September 2002	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
5 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20227
5 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
4 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20260
24 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
2 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20424

Every fire recorded in Le Flore County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Summerfield School: 3 past producers. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unknown Sandstone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Sandstone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Sandstone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Le Flore County

Storms near this property

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summerfield, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 14 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2003	Tornado (F1)	Summerfield	$25,000	A F1 tornado caused damage to the west of Summerfield. The tornado destroyed a small barn and a chicken house. Several trees were uprooted.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerfield	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a large tree. The tree fell on a church.
April 2015	Hail	Summerfield	$5,000	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerfield	$100	Several large tree limbs were blown down in Summerfield.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerfield	-	Strong thunderstorm wind uprooted trees and snapped large tree limbs.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerfield	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerfield	-	Trees were blown down by strong thunderstorm wind.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerfield	-	Emergency management personnel estimated 70 mph thunderstorm wind gusts. Large tree limbs were blown down.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerfield	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerfield	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a tree. The tree blocked a road.
July 1994	Hail	Summerfield	-	Isolated severe thunderstorms developed in Le Flore County of southeast Oklahoma during the late afternoon of July 16th. Strong thunderstorm winds downed large tree limbs in Summerfield, and dime-size hail also fell in Summerfield. Nickel-size hail fell 2 miles south of Page.
February 2020	Hail	Summerfield	-	no account filed
February 2020	Hail	Summerfield	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Summerfield	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Summerfield	-	no account filed
November 2004	Hail	Summerfield	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Summerfield	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Summerfield	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Summerfield	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Summerfield	-	no account filed
January 1999	Hail	Summerfield	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Summerfield	-	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	Summerfield	-	no account filed
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Summerfield	-	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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Trahern's Station	4.9 miles	1972
	Dog Creek School	5.6 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001406 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.
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.