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Dwight Mission

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Dwight Presbyterian Mission was one of the first American missions to the Native Americans. It was established near present-day Russellville, Arkansas in 1820 to serve the Arkansas Cherokees.”
Wikipedia article Dwight Presbyterian Mission, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Sequoyah County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 3 mi. SW of Marble City, Marble City, 74962
When was it listed? March 1973
Category. building
Census division. Sallisaw North
National Register reference number. 73001570 - 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

390 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 390 fires within 5 miles of Dwight Mission between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,567 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 141 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	141
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	127
Debris and open burning	69
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Smoking	11
Recreation and ceremony	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Natural	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4

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
7 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	9.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
7 September 1998	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
5 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
4 September 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	7.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
4 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
30 September 2002	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
29 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	27 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Sequoyah 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 Dwight Mission: 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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 Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Marble City Mine #2 & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Sequoyah County

Storms near this property

24 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marble City, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 13 hail, 9 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Marble City	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew a tree down onto a home.
May 2006	Hail	Marble City	$10,000	no account filed
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Marble City	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees and power poles.
May 2010	Tornado (EF1)	Marble City	$5,000	A tornado snapped or uprooted numerous trees, and blew down power poles. The estimated peak wind in the tornado based on this damage was 105 mph.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Marble City	$1,000	Numerous trees were blown down
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Marble City	-	Several trees were blown down by strong thunderstorm winds.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Marble City	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down some trees.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Marble City	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down numerous tree near the Marble City area.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Marble City	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Marble City	-	60 mile an hour thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs.
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Marble City	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
June 1998	Hail	Marble City	-	Summary: an elevated thunderstorm rooted above a cap of warm air in the mid-levels of the atmosphere, briefly strengthened to severe levels while moving across Sequoyah County on the morning of June 18, producing dime-sized hail.
September 1998	Flash Flood	Marble City	-	Little Sallisaw Creek north of Marble City overflowed a low-water crossing.
March 2017	Hail	Marble City	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Marble City	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Marble City	-	no account filed
December 2008	Hail	Marble City	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Marble City	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Marble City	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Marble City	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Marble City	-	no account filed
March 2002	Hail	Marble City	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	Marble City	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Marble City	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sequoyah 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

5 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
Citizen's State Bank	2.5 miles	1980
Sallisaw High School	7.1 miles	1997
First Presbyterian Church	7.2 miles	2003
Judge Franklin Faulkner House	7.4 miles	1980
Hines Round Barn	7.7 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73001570 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sequoyah County	All 7 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.