Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
From the record
“Ed Galloway's Totem Pole Park is a park created by American sculptor, woodcarver, and folk artist Ed Galloway. The site consists of eleven sculptures and one building on 14 acres in Rogers County, in northeastern Oklahoma.”
Wikipedia article Ed Galloway's Totem Pole Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 19 National Register listings published here for Rogers County · listed in 1999 · category: District.
National Register reference number.99000354- 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
2 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Ed Galloway's Totem Pole Park
between 2000 and 2012, burning about 330 acres in total. None 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
Arson/incendiarism
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
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 federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of Ed Galloway's Totem Pole Park: 4 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Foyil, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 15 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood.
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.
Law enforcement reported 65 mile an hour winds at Foyil. This wind caused damage to trees and power poles. The winds also blew down a metal shed at the football stadium. The falling shed injured a four year old girl who was at the location to watch a scrimmage. The girl was transported to the nearest hospital to be treated.
Heavy rain caused flash flooding across the northeast part of Rogers County during the morning hours of the 1st. Highway 28 on the southeast side of Chelsea had to be closed and numerous county roads had to be closed. Water also entered some businesses in the city of Chelsea.
A garage was heavily damaged by an F1 tornado. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported a tornado 4 miles west of Chelsea near Allen Point. Several mobile homes in the Spencer Creek mobile home park sustained roof and siding damage.
Numerous trees were uprooted or blown down. Several trees were blown over onto power lines. Tree limbs were blown into roads. At the Washington Cemetery, grave markers were blown over and large trees were uprooted.
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.
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.
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