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One of 32 National Register listings published here for Pittsburg County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1936.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Tipton Ridge School
Built in 1936. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. N of Blocker, Blocker, 74561
- 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. Quinton
- When was it built? 1936
- National Register reference number. 88001417 - 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
202 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 202 fires within 5 miles of Tipton Ridge School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,367 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 85 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 | 85 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 64 |
| Debris and open burning | 37 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Talihina Agency | ELM POINT |
| 8 August 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20150 |
| 7 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Talihina Agency | 012 |
| 5 August 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20145 |
| 5 August 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20144 |
| 30 August 2002 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 8.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 120 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20219 |
| 27 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20204 |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Tipton Ridge School: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Shale Pit | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
13 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blocker, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 3 hail. 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blocker | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 90 miles an hour damaged or destroyed several out buildings. |
| May 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Blocker | $30,000 | This tornado snapped a few trees, uprooted a number of trees, and damaged several outbuildings. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 90 to 95 mph. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blocker | $25,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour destroyed a barn, snapped power poles and blew a tree down onto a house. |
| May 1997 | Tornado (F1) | Blocker | $20,000 | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Hail | Blocker | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blocker | $3,000 | Power lines and trees blown down |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blocker | $300 | Several trees blown down |
| February 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blocker | $100 | Tree blown down in Blocker |
| July 2006 | Hail | Blocker | - | Golfball size hail destroyed 700 acres of corn and 100 acres of soybeans. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Blocker | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blocker | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Blocker | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Blocker | - | no account filed |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88001417 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.
- 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.