McAlester, Oklahoma

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 19 shown

• Aldridge Hotellisted 1995
• Busby Office Buildinglisted 1979
• Busby Theatrelisted 1979
• Federal Building and US Courthouselisted 2000
• First Presbyterian Churchlisted 1979
• International Temple, Supreme Assembly, Order of the Rainbow for Girlslisted 2013
• McAlester Armorylisted 1988
• McAlester Houselisted 1980
• McAlester Scottish Rite Templelisted 1980
• Mine Rescue Station Buildinglisted 1980
• OKLA Theaterlisted 2003
• Pittsburg County Courthouselisted 1984

Every listing in Pittsburg County

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

• Garrard Ardeneum, 501 North Fifth Street, McAlesterfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• McAlester Army Ammunition Plant, McAlesterfederal building survey, 1 photograph

McAlester fell from 18,383 to 18,171 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1898 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1898 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1909 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1950 USGS Mcalester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS McAlester quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1991 USGS Mc Alester quadrangle1:100000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of McAlester between 1993 and 2019, burning about 5,673 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 45 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• North McAlester
• Krebs
• Mekko
• Richville
• Alderson
• Bug Tussle

Every fire recorded in Pittsburg County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of McAlester: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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.

Every working recorded in Pittsburg County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McAlester in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 12 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind. 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.

Every storm recorded in Pittsburg County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1095202. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.