Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
From the record
“Clayton High School Auditorium is an historic structure serving the public school of Clayton, Oklahoma. Clayton is located in the Kiamichi Mountains of Pushmataha County, Oklahoma.”
Wikipedia article Clayton High School Auditorium, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Pushmataha County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.
Also known as. WPA Public Bldgs., Recreational Facilities and Cemetery Improvements in Southeastern Oklahoma, 1935-1943 TR
Census division. North Pushmataha
Architectural style. Art Deco architecture
National Register reference number.88001418- 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
492 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 492 fires within 5 miles of Clayton High School-Auditorium
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,511 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 205 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
205
Debris and open burning
105
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
80
Equipment and vehicle use
56
Natural
23
Recreation and ceremony
13
Smoking
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Fireworks
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Clayton, the town this property stands in, in 68 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 41 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 2 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.
An F1 tornado touched down briefly near the Pushmataha/Pittsburg County line off of OK Hwy 43 in an unpopulated area 13 miles west of Clayton. After causing some tree damage, the tornado crossed briefly in Pittsburg County before lifting.
The Kiamichi River near Clayton rose above its flood stage of 17 feet at 3:00 am CST on November 22nd. The river crested at 19.65 feet at 12:00 pm CST on the 23rd, resulting in moderate flooding. The river fell below its flood stage at 11:30 pm CST on the 23rd.
Locally heavy rainfall resulted in the flooding of several roads across the central portion of Pushmataha County. Several roads around Clayton were closed due to the flooding.
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.
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.
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