BlockFrom the record
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Choctaw County · listed in 1971 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Chief's House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 1.5 mi. NE of Swink, Swink, 74764
- When was it listed? June 1971
- Category. building
- Census division. Fort Towson
- National Register reference number. 71000660 - 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
79 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Chief's House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,838 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 36 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 | 36 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 September 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 40 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 16 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 10539 |
| 3 August 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 10267 |
| 29 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 13 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 10204 |
| 28 August 2010 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 30 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 10192 |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Chief's House: 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
10 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Swink, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swink | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree onto the N 4420 Road. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swink | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a large tree onto Highway 70. |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swink | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs. |
| May 2009 | Flash Flood | Swink | - | Heavy rain caused water to flow over a county road northeast of Swink. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Swink | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a few trees. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Swink | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Swink | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Swink | - | no account filed |
| January 2010 | Hail | Swink | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Swink | - | no account filed |
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
1 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Willie W. Wilson House | 4.8 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 71000660 in Record Group 79. |
| Choctaw County | All 12 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.