Warden's House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Warden's House at Penitentiary Blvd and West St. in McAlester, Oklahoma was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. It has also been known as Oklahoma State Penitentiary Warden's House.”
Wikipedia article Warden's House (McAlester, Oklahoma), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Pittsburg County · listed in 2005 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Penitentiary Blvd and West St., McAlester, 74501
When was it listed? June 2005
Category. building
Census division. McAlester
Architectural style. Spanish Colonial Revival architecture
Architect. P.H. Weathers
National Register reference number. 05000615 - 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

65 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Warden's House between 1996 and 2019, burning about 6,102 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 37 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	37
Debris and open burning	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,000 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	LOVE
5 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Talihina Agency	BREWER FIRE
5 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Talihina Agency	MITCHELL FIRE
3 August 2006	Natural	60 acres	Talihina Agency	BURNT CHAIR
3 August 2006	Natural	15 acres	Talihina Agency	BOAT RAMP
17 August 2009	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Talihina Agency	W KING
7 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20107
4 July 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20078

Every fire recorded in Pittsburg County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Warden's House: 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.

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

Every working recorded in Pittsburg County

Storms near this property

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McAlester, the town this property stands in, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	McAlester	$50,000	no account filed
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	McAlester	-	A severe thunderstorm in Pittsburg County produced 70 mph winds five miles north of McAlester and strong winds which downed power lines near McAlester.
April 1995	Hail	McAlester	-	,,,,,,,,TSTM Wind (61) McAlester,22,1150CST,,,0,0,3,0,TSTM Wind Alderson,22,1150CST,,,0,0,4,0,TSTM Wind 5 SE McAlester,22,1150CST,,,0,0,3,0,TSTM Wind 5 W Savanna,22,1150CST,,,0,0,5,0,TSTM Wind
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	McAlester	-	A severe thunderstorm produced strong winds which downed large tree limbs and power lines in McAlester.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	McAlester	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	McAlester	-	no account filed
May 1995	Hail	McAlester	-	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	McAlester	-	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	McAlester	-	no account filed
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	McAlester	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	McAlester	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	McAlester	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	McAlester	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	McAlester	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	McAlester	-	no account filed
March 1993	Hail	McAlester	-	no account filed
March 1993	Hail	McAlester	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pittsburg 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

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
OKLA Theater	0.9 miles	2003
McAlester House	1.2 miles	1980
First Presbyterian Church	1.3 miles	1979
Jeff Lee Park Bath House and Pool	1.3 miles	1988
Jeff Lee Park Bath House and Pool	1.4 miles	1988
McAlester Armory	1.4 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000615 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pittsburg County	All 32 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.