Diamond Point Dependent District No. 44 School

Built in 1919. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Diamond Point School is a historic one-room school house in Nowata County, Oklahoma, at the junction of county roads 409 and 245. It was built in 1919 and was used through 1968.”
Wikipedia article Diamond Point School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Nowata County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1919.

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 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of Co. Rds. 409 and 24.5, Nowata, 74048
When was it listed? September 1996
Category. building
Census division. Nowata
When was it built? 1919
National Register reference number. 96000977 - 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

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Diamond Point Dependent District No. 44 School between 2006 and 2012, burning about 270 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined	2
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
18 June 2012	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	40302
13 March 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	116 acres	Cherokee Nation Tribe	MINTIWAC MAN
16 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	144 acres	Cherokee Nation Tribe	SMOKERISE
16 December 2010	Natural	4.5 acres	Cherokee Nation Tribe	NO FENCE

Every fire recorded in Nowata County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Diamond Point Dependent District No. 44 School: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Nowata County

Storms near this property

60 of 125 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nowata, the town this property stands in, in 125 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 71 thunderstorm wind, 39 hail, 10 flash flood, 4 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
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$3,500,000	Thunderstorm winds measured at 74 miles an hour at a nearby mesonet site and estimated at 80 miles an hour at Nowata did widespread damage in and around Nowata. Several hundred trees and power poles were damaged or blown down. The trees fell on several houses causing roof damage. Several cars were also damaged. The downed power poles caused widespread power outages that lasted up to 12 hours.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$750,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles did serious damage along a 6 miles long area from just southwest of Nowata to just northwest of Nowata. Two homes, an indoor livestock area and 5 barns were destroyed. Twelve other structures received significant roof damage. This damage was produced by the same line of thunderstorms that produced significant wind damage in Bartlesville earlier in the morning.
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$500,000	no account filed
September 2012	Hail	Nowata	$100,000	Wind-driven baseball size hail broke windows, damaged the roofs and siding of homes, and damaged automobiles.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$60,000	Strong thunderstorm wind destroyed several steel-framed structures, damaged a number of homes, snapped numerous power poles, and snapped or uprooted trees.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$25,000	Strong thunderstorm wind snapped a number of power poles and uprooted trees.
May 2017	Hail	Nowata	$20,000	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Nowata	$20,000	no account filed
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$5,000	Power lines were blown down by strong thunderstorm wind.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm wind damaged the metal siding of an outdoor garage, blew shingles off the roofs of several homes, and snapped large tree limbs.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour blew part of a roof off of a house.
April 2008	Flash Flood	Nowata	$5,000	Heavy rain caused severe street flooding. Water entered some homes.
May 2017	Hail	Nowata	$5,000	no account filed
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$5,000	no account filed
May 1996	Lightning	Nowata	$5,000	no account filed
March 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$5,000	no account filed
March 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$5,000	no account filed
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$5,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$5,000	no account filed
October 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$4,000	Five to six power lines were blown down near New Alluwe
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$3,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down power lines and an amateur radio antenna.
October 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$3,000	A home sustained roof damage.
March 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$3,000	no account filed
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$2,000	Strong thunderstorm wind snapped numerous large tree limbs and blew down power lines.
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$2,000	no account filed
October 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$1,500	Several trees and a power line were blown down in Nowata.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down power lines.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$500	Severe thunderstorms moved across northeast Oklahoma during the very early morning of July 3rd. Strong thunderstorm wind blew the tin siding off a barn in Nowata and also blew down large tree limbs in Nowata. Large tree limbs were also blown down in Delaware, and 60 mph winds blew down large tree limbs at Wah-sha-she State Park six miles northeast of Bowring. Thunderstorm winds also gusted to 60 miles an hour in Lenapah. Nickel-size hail fell at Copan, and dime-size hail fell at Grainola and at Delaware.
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$100	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$100	Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree limb.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$100	Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs.
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$100	Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$100	no account filed
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$100	no account filed
April 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$100	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	$100	no account filed
May 2021	Flash Flood	Nowata	-	Several roads were reported flooded on the southeast side of town.
May 2019	Flash Flood	Nowata	-	Portions of Highway 169 in Nowata were closed due to high water.
June 2019	Flash Flood	Nowata	-	Several roads were flooded in and around Nowata.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured to 62 mph.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	-	Strong thunderstorm wind uprooted a large tree.
April 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
April 2012	Tornado (EF0)	Nowata	-	Storm spotters reported a brief tornado. Large tree limbs were snapped by this tornado.
April 2012	Tornado (EF1)	Nowata	-	Storm spotters reported a brief tornado. The tornado snapped hardwood trees.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	-	Strong thunderstorm wind gusts blew down large trees.
May 2011	Flash Flood	Nowata	-	The county road just north of Highway 60 along the Nowata/Craig County line was flooded and impassable.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down a large tree limb.
November 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a tree.
May 2008	Flash Flood	Nowata	-	Heavy rain caused secondary roads to be flooded near and to the west of Nowata.
June 2008	Flash Flood	Nowata	-	Heavy rain flooded many secondary roads. Water also flowed over Highway 169 north of Nowata.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down two large trees.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large limbs, which blocked a road.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down numerous trees.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
April 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Nowata	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down numerous large tree limbs.

Every storm recorded in Nowata 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

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
United States Post Office Nowata	5.2 miles	2009
Nowata County Courthouse	5.3 miles	1984
Cemetery Patent 110	7.5 miles	2001
Moore Ranch	7.6 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000977 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nowata County	All 6 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.