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Snow School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Snow School is a historic school building in the rural community of Snow, Oklahoma, approximately 18 miles north of Antlers, Oklahoma. The school was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”

Wikipedia article Snow School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Pushmataha 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. US 271, Snow, 74543
  • 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. Finley-Rattan
  • National Register reference number. 88001420 - 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

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Snow School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,844 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 56 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/undetermined59
Arson/incendiarism56
Debris and open burning34
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural9
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10543
8 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry10534
7 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry10549
27 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestry10363
27 September 2003Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry10410
25 September 2001Natural1.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Pushmataha County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Snow 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pushmataha County

Storms near this property

13 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Snow, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2001 and 2015: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2005Thunderstorm WindSnow$25,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew some siding off a house. A tree blown down by the wind fell onto the house.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindSnow$15,000Trees were damaged by strong thunderstorm winds. One tree was blown down onto a mobile home.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindSnow-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several trees.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindSnow-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees between Snow and Finley.
May 2008Tornado (EF1)Snow-An NWS storm survey determined that a tornado snapped or uprooted numerous trees north of town.
July 2007Flash FloodSnow-Heavy rain caused water to flow over several county roads near Snow.
June 2001Flash FloodSnow-Heavy thunderstorm rains caused streams to overflow their banks around Snow.
April 2015HailSnow-no account filed
April 2014HailSnow-no account filed
April 2011HailSnow-no account filed
May 2008HailSnow-no account filed
April 2007HailSnow-no account filed
April 2005HailSnow-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pushmataha 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88001420 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pushmataha CountyAll 9 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.