First Methodist-Episcopal Church, South

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“First Methodist-Episcopal Church, South is a historic church building at 314 W. Canadian Avenue in Vinita, Oklahoma, United States.”
Wikipedia article First Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Vinita, Oklahoma), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Craig County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 314 W. Candian Ave., Vinita, 74301
When was it listed? June 1999
Category. building
Census division. Vinita East
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 99000673 - 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

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of First Methodist-Episcopal Church, South between 2010 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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	4
Debris and open burning	1
Natural	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
14 June 2012	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30244
1 April 2012	Arson/incendiarism	80 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30217
26 March 2020	Arson/incendiarism	21 acres	Cherokee Nation Tribe	BUFFINGTON
19 February 2010	Natural	under an acre	Cherokee Nation Tribe	KEYSTONE
9 October 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Cherokee Nation Tribe	BRUSHCOAT
10 October 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Cherokee Nation Tribe	RED ASPHALT

Every fire recorded in Craig County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of First Methodist-Episcopal Church, South: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Sandstone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Craig County

Storms near this property

60 of 156 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vinita, the town this property stands in, in 156 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 71 hail, 66 thunderstorm wind, 13 flash flood, 3 lightning. The reports record 4 injuries. 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	Vinita	4 hurt, $30,000	A collapsing thunderstorms produced microburst winds estimated at 70 miles an hour. These winds blew down several trees and destroyed a trailer house. The four people inside the trailer house were injured and taken to the hospital for treatment.
May 1999	Flash Flood	Vinita	$4,000,000	An estimated 5 to 8 inches of rain in a short time caused Big Cabin Creek on the west side of Vinita and Bull Creek on the east side of Vinita to overflow their banks and enter 54 homes. Water was five feet deep in some homes. 30 homes were evacuated. The hardest-hit areas were located along North Second to North Fourth Streets, near Sequoyah and Tahlequah. According to the police chief, all of the homes around North Second Street were devastated. Later in the evening, water from Bull Creek drained into Big Cabin Creek, flooding out several homes in the Westwood area. Long-time residents say that the last time Bull Creek flooded any homes was in 1961, though they said the flooding this time was much more serious. Property damage was estimated at $4 million. Swift-moving floodwater from Bull Creek swept a pickup truck off of Eastern State Road.All four lanes of US Hwy 60 were closed by high water 1/2 mile west of Vinita. There were also reports of flooding around Welch.
June 2010	Lightning	Vinita	$500,000	Lightning ignited a large fire at the Paint and Home Decorative Center of the TH Rogers Lumber Company in Vinita, destroying the building and all of its contents. The structure was approximately 60x200 feet and contained laminate flooring, rolls of carpet, cans of paint, and decorative doors.
May 2000	Flash Flood	Vinita	$150,000	Heavy rains caused flooding on the eastern side of Vinita. Water up to four inches deep entered up to fifteen houses. Boats were used in the streets to rescue families.
May 2020	Hail	Vinita	$75,000	Hail larger than golf ball size damaged vehicles, homes, and businesses.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	$63,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down numerous trees and did some damage to a few structures. One home which was under construction collapsed and tin roofs were blown off two buildings at a lumber yard. Rain damaged contents of the buildings.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	$58,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour caused considerable damage in Vinita. A mobile home was pushed off its foundation and several metal garages were damaged. Trees were also blown down. A few of the trees fell on homes causing roof and other structural damage.
December 1999	Hail	Vinita	$50,000	Qarter to half dollar size hail fell in Vinita.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	$50,000	no account filed
April 2026	Hail	Vinita	$30,000	Golf ball size hail damaged homes and vehicles.
August 2020	Hail	Vinita	$25,000	Golf ball size hail damaged vehicles and homes.
August 2020	Hail	Vinita	$25,000	Baseball size hail damaged vehicles and homes.
April 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Vinita	$25,000	A tornado tore the roof off of a mobile home, blew down a small billboard, damaged the roofs of several barns and outbuildings, and blew down power poles. Maximum winds based on the damage were estimated to be near 75 mph.
May 2017	Hail	Vinita	$25,000	no account filed
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	$20,000	Strong thunderstorm wind destroyed outbuildings and uprooted trees.
May 2020	Hail	Vinita	$15,000	Ping pong ball size hail damaged vehicles and homes.
September 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	$15,000	The roof was blown off of a business in Vinita, and many trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2015	Hail	Vinita	$15,000	no account filed
August 2006	Lightning	Vinita	$10,000	Lightning struck a house causing a fire.
April 2015	Hail	Vinita	$10,000	no account filed
May 2019	Tornado (EF0)	Vinita	$5,000	This tornado was reported by a trained storm spotter. The tornado snapped large tree limbs and blew down power poles. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 80 to 85 mph.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a barn.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds overturned a semi on the Will Rogers turnpike.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees and destroyed an outbuilding.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	$5,000	Trees and power lines were blown down.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	$5,000	no account filed
August 2001	Lightning	Vinita	$3,000	A house was struck by lightning in Vinita. Only minor damage was reported.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	$3,000	Tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Vinita.
November 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	$2,000	A Sonic restaurant had wind damage to the awning.
November 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	$2,000	Winds estimated near 60 miles an hour caused several electrical transformers to blow near Ketchum at the Craig/Mayes County line.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	$1,000	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees and overturned a shed.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	$1,000	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs and snapped a power pole.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour broke off one power pole and caused 3 others to lean over. The wind also blew down numerous large tree limbs.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down power poles.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour damaged the roof of a drive through at a bank in Ketchum.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down power lines.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	$1,000	Power lines in Vinita were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
November 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	$1,000	The roof was blown off of a shed 3 miles northwest of Big Cabin.
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	$1,000	no account filed
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	$100	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs at Big Cabin.
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	$100	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs in Big Cabin.
November 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	$100	Winds estimated between 60 and 75 miles an hour blew tree limbs down in Vinita.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	$100	Tree limbs were blown down west of Vinita.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	$100	no account filed
August 2023	Flash Flood	Vinita	-	Portions of several roads in and around Vinita were flooded.
May 2019	Flash Flood	Vinita	-	Portions of Highway 60 east of Vinita were flooded and closed.
May 2019	Flash Flood	Vinita	-	Portions of Highways 69 and 60 were flooded and closed.
April 2019	Flash Flood	Vinita	-	Portions of Highway 2 were closed due to flooding.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	-	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several trees.
May 2011	Flash Flood	Vinita	-	Flood water covered many county roads around Bluejacket and Pyramid Corners.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	-	Large tree limbs were blown down by strong thunderstorm wind.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	-	The Oklahoma Mesonet station located near Vinita measured 60 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
April 2008	Flash Flood	Vinita	-	Heavy rain caused street flooding in the Ketchum area.
April 2008	Flash Flood	Vinita	-	Heavy rain caused secondary roads near Vinita to be flooded.
June 2008	Flash Flood	Vinita	-	Heavy rain caused extensive flooding near Interstate 44.
June 2008	Flash Flood	Vinita	-	Locally heavy rainfall flooded streets in and around Vinita.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	-	The Oklahoma mesonet site near Vinita recorded a 58 mile an hour wind gust.
April 2008	Flash Flood	Vinita	-	Heavy rain caused some low lying areas in the City of Vinita to be flooded. A few roads in the vicinity of Vinita were also flooded.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Vinita	-	Strong thunderstorm wind gusts blew down large tree limbs in Ketchum.

Every storm recorded in Craig County

Newspapers printed here

23,312 digitised pages

6 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 5,186 issues, 23,312 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Newspaper	Published
The Weekly Chieftain	1905 to 1913
The Vinita Weekly Chieftain	1902 to 1905
The Vinita Daily Chieftain	1902 to 1913
The Daily Indian Chieftain	1891 to 189?
The Daily Chieftain	1898 to 1902
Indian Chieftain	1882 to 1902

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

6 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
Craig County Courthouse	under 500 feet	1984
Hotel Vinita	0.2 miles	1995
Spraker Service Station	0.2 miles	1995
Randall Tire Company	0.4 miles	1995
Attucks School	0.5 miles	2009
Carselowey House	0.7 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000673 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Craig County	All 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.