Pocasset Gymnasium

Built in 1940. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Pocasset Gymnasium, in Pocasset, Oklahoma, was built as a Works Progress Administration project in 1940. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.”
Wikipedia article Pocasset Gymnasium, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Grady County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1940.

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. .5 mi. S of jct. of Dutton Rd. and OK 81, Pocasset, 73079
When was it listed? December 1996
Category. building
Census division. Amber-Pocasset
When was it built? 1940
National Register reference number. 96001489 - 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 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Pocasset Gymnasium between 2012 and 2017, burning about 1,088 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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	4

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
20 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Chickasaw Agency	DUTTON
8 February 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	300 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	WEST MAIN AMBER
23 February 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Chickasaw Agency	HOFFMAN FIRE
29 January 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	782 acres	Chickasaw Agency	BARREL

Every fire recorded in Grady County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pocasset Gymnasium: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Grady County

Storms near this property

42 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pocasset, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 24 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 4 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 2007	Flash Flood	Pocasset	1 hurt, $8,000	Highway 81 north of Pocasset was closed due to high water. A car drove into flooded street causing car to be washed off the roadway. One injury was reported. Monetary damages were estimated.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Pocasset	$10,000	Social media image showing two exterior walls of a machine shed collapsed. Time is radar estimated.
October 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Pocasset	$7,000	Damage was noted along US-81 about three miles south of Pocasset. Power lines, an outbuilding and fences were damaged.
April 2021	Hail	Pocasset	$5,000	North side windows broken on multiple homes.
April 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Pocasset	$5,000	Significant damage to a roof and barn and broken poles.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Pocasset	$5,000	no account filed
April 2023	Hail	Pocasset	-	MPing report.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Pocasset	-	An area of wind damage was reported from about a mile east of Pocasset to about 3.5 miles northeast of Pocasset. One house east of Pocasset has broken windows and porch pillars. At least two barns were damaged in this area.
October 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Pocasset	-	An outbuilding was damaged.
May 2016	Tornado (EFU)	Pocasset	-	Many people observed three simultaneous landspouts west and north of Pocassett. No damage was reported.
May 2016	Tornado (EFU)	Pocasset	-	Many people observed three simultaneous landspouts west and north of Pocassett. No damage was reported.
May 2016	Tornado (EFU)	Pocasset	-	Many people observed three simultaneous landspouts west and north of Pocassett. No damage was reported.
May 2015	Flash Flood	Pocasset	-	Up to two feet of water covering roads between Pocasset and Verden.
May 2015	Flash Flood	Pocasset	-	Parts of Highway 81 submerged under several inches of water. No damage reported.
May 2015	Tornado (EF1)	Pocasset	-	A tornado was shown live from a KOCO TV helicopter near Pocasset. Emergency management reports four houses damaged by this tornado (DI 2, up to DOD 4).
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Pocasset	-	Several tree limbs up to eight inches in diameter were broken off of trees.
May 2025	Hail	Pocasset	-	no account filed
March 2023	Hail	Pocasset	-	no account filed
June 2022	Flash Flood	Pocasset	-	no account filed
April 2021	Hail	Pocasset	-	no account filed
April 2021	Hail	Pocasset	-	no account filed
April 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Pocasset	-	no account filed
April 2020	Hail	Pocasset	-	no account filed
April 2020	Hail	Pocasset	-	no account filed
April 2020	Hail	Pocasset	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Pocasset	-	no account filed
March 2015	Hail	Pocasset	-	no account filed
October 2011	Hail	Pocasset	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Pocasset	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Pocasset	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Pocasset	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Pocasset	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Pocasset	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Pocasset	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Pocasset	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Pocasset	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Pocasset	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Pocasset	-	no account filed
November 1996	Flash Flood	Pocasset	-	no account filed
November 1996	Hail	Pocasset	-	no account filed
March 1994	Hail	Pocasset	-	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Pocasset	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grady 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 record	The nomination case file for reference 96001489 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grady County	All 12 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.