A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
From the record
“Sequoyah's Cabin is a log cabin and historic site off Oklahoma State Highway 101 near Akins, Oklahoma. It was the home between 1829 and 1844 of the Cherokee Indian Sequoyah, who in 1821 created a written language for the Cherokee Nation.”
Wikipedia article Sequoyah's Cabin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 7 National Register listings published here for Sequoyah County · listed in 1966 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.66000634- 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
308 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 308 fires within 5 miles of Sequoyah's Cabin
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,411 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 123 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
123
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
89
Debris and open burning
55
Recreation and ceremony
11
Equipment and vehicle use
9
Natural
9
Smoking
7
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Railroad operations and maintenance
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
1 working within 5 miles of Sequoyah's Cabin: 1 past producer.
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
Akins, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado.
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.
A storm chaser with broadcast media reported a brief tornado. The tornado snapped large tree limbs and damaged the roof of an outbuilding. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 75 to 80 mph.
Severe thunderstorms developed in northeast Oklahoma during the early evening of October 26th and continued throughout the evening. The storms produced a total of four tornadoes, as well as large hail and damaging winds. The first tornado touched down briefly three miles southwest of Spavinaw at 1740 CST. No damage occurred with this F0 tornado. The second tornado touched down eight miles southwest of Tahlequah in the small community of Woodall at 1816 CST. The tornado moved east for two miles before lifting six miles southwest of Tahlequah at 1820 CST. Considerable damage occurred in and near Woodall from both the tornado and a strong rear flank downdraft. Eighteen homes, four mobile homes, and two businesses were damaged, mainly from downed trees, and numerous barns were destroyed. Total damage was estimated at $200 thousand. The tornado track was just north of State Highway 62, with the damage along and just south of State Highway 62 being from the rear flank downdraft. The tornado was 75-yards wide and was rated F0. The third tornado touched down briefly in an open field five miles south of Tahlequah at 1843 CST. No damage occurred with this F0 tornado. The fourth tornado touched down seven miles west northwest of Stilwell at 1846 CST. The tornado moved east and was on the ground intermittently for three miles before lifting four miles northwest of Stilwell at 1852 CST. One mobile home was damaged by the tornado when a tree fell onto it, and several homes received minor damage from downed trees. Considerable tree damage was caused by rear flank downdraft winds along the tornado's track. The tornado was 75-yards wide and was rated F0. Strong straight-line winds blew the roofs off two homes and downed several trees and power lines nine miles west of Stilwell, and trees were also blown down 10 miles southwest of Tahlequah and four miles northeast of Stilwell. Large hail also accompanied the storms. Golf ball-size hail fell at Okay, half-dollar-size hail fell at Spavinaw, and dime to quarter-size hail covered the ground at Fort Gibson. Dime to quarter-size hail also fell at several other locations in northeast Oklahoma.
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
1 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.
Block
