New State School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Pittsburg 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. S of Hartshorne near North Fork Elm Creek, Hartshorne, 74528
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. Hartshorne-Haileyville
National Register reference number. 88001414 - 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

196 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 196 fires within 5 miles of New State School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 52,149 acres in total. 8 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	52
Debris and open burning	36
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Natural	8
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
7 September 2005	Debris and open burning	400 acres	Talihina Agency	BLUE
4 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20404
30 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.1 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20444
2 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
1 September 2005	Debris and open burning	85 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20397
9 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	60 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20436
8 August 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
6 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20404

Every fire recorded in Pittsburg County

Storms near this property

31 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hartshorne, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 14 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 3 tornado. The reports record 5 injuries. 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 2000	Tornado (F1)	Hartshorne	5 hurt, $250,000	An F1 tornado touched down north of Hartshorne and lifted 2 miles later northeast of Hartshorne.The tornado destroyed five mobile homes and a frame house. The roofs of four other homes were damaged. The tornado also uprooted large trees and downed power lines.
May 2008	Tornado (EF2)	Hartshorne	$200,000	A tornado destroyed mobile homes, severely damaged permanent homes, snapped or uprooted numerous trees, destroyed barns and outbuildings, and blew down power poles and power lines. This tornado continued into Latimer County.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartshorne	$25,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour damaged the roof of an industrial business and the roofs of a few homes. Numerous large tree limbs also were blown down.
April 2024	Flash Flood	Hartshorne	$10,000	Portions of several roads were flooded. A swift water rescue was conducted when a vehicle was stranded in the flood water.
April 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartshorne	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour damage the roof of a business.
May 1999	Tornado (F1)	Hartshorne	$500	An F1 tornado touched down briefly near the Pittsburg/Pushmataha County line along OK Hwy 43. The tornado crossed the county line in an unpopulated area, causing only tree damage.
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartshorne	$500	Numerous tree limbs were blown down.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartshorne	$100	Several 6 to 8-inch tree limbs were blown down in Hartshorne.
April 2015	Flash Flood	Hartshorne	-	Highway 63 was closed due to high water between Bache Road and Haileyville.
September 2007	Flash Flood	Hartshorne	-	Heavy rain caused roads in and near Hartshorne to be impassible due to high water.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartshorne	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
April 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartshorne	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
September 2001	Flash Flood	Hartshorne	-	Heavy thunderstorm rains caused nearly a foot of water to flow over rural roads in the vicinity of Hartshorne.
May 1999	Flash Flood	Hartshorne	-	There was street flooding in Hartshorne.
June 1995	Hail	Hartshorne	-	,,,,,,,,Thunderstorm Winds
May 2025	Hail	Hartshorne	-	no account filed
April 2020	Hail	Hartshorne	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Hartshorne	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Hartshorne	-	no account filed
March 2005	Hail	Hartshorne	-	no account filed
December 2003	Hail	Hartshorne	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Hartshorne	-	no account filed
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartshorne	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Hartshorne	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Hartshorne	-	no account filed
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Hartshorne	-	no account filed
May 1996	Flash Flood	Hartshorne	-	no account filed
October 1996	Hail	Hartshorne	-	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	Hartshorne	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Hartshorne	-	no account filed
May 1995	Hail	Hartshorne	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pittsburg 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
	Saints Cyril and Methodius Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	8.0 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001414 in Record Group 79.
Pittsburg County	All 32 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.