BlockFrom the record
One of 19 National Register listings published here for Wagoner County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Van Tuyl Homeplace
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. N of Porter, Porter, 74454
- When was it listed? February 1978
- Category. building
- Census division. Coweta
- National Register reference number. 78002276 - 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
2 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Van Tuyl Homeplace between 2008 and 2018, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 February 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 January 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Cherokee Nation Tribe | GLOEHAVEN |
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 Van Tuyl Homeplace: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coweta Sand Dredge and Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
41 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Porter, the town this property stands in, in 41 storm reports between 1993 and 2017: 21 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2017 | Tornado (EF1) | Porter | $120,000 | This tornado developed south of Porter where it uprooted trees and destroyed an outbuilding. It moved northeast damaging homes, destroying outbuildings, uprooting or snapping numerous trees, and blowing down power poles. The tornado dissipated on the northwestern side of Wagoner, north of Highway 51. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 95 to 105 mph. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Porter | $50,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind damaged the roofs of buildings, blew down power lines, snapped large tree limbs, and blew down tents set up for the annual Porter Peach Festival. |
| March 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Porter | $25,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour damaged a mobile home and destroyed a shed and a barn. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Porter | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated near 80 miles an hour blew the roof off of the high school. |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Porter | $10,000 | There was a brief tornado touchdown 5 miles west of Porter that blew a vehicle off of SH 51-A. |
| December 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Porter | $6,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour snapped off 6 power poles. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Porter | $5,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind damaged an outbuilding. |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Porter | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour damaged the roof of a metal barn. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Porter | $100 | Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs. |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Porter | $100 | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Porter | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several large tree limbs. |
| January 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Porter | - | An NWS survey team determined that a tornado caused extensive tree damage. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Porter | - | The Oklahoma mesonet site near Porter recorded a 58 mile an hour wind gust. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Porter | - | The Oklahoma mesonet site near Porter recorded at 62 mile an hour wind gust. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Porter | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees. |
| May 1999 | Flash Flood | Porter | - | Several roads were closed due to high water. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Porter | - | Severe thunderstorms moved across northeast Oklahoma during the very early morning of June 13th. Strong thunderstorm winds destroyed 1 mobile home and badly damaged 7 manufactured homes 1 mile northeast of Pawhuska, and 3 houses were damaged by strong winds in the Glen Park Addition in Glenpool. 1 of the homes in Glenpool had its roof peeled back. 6 power poles were also blown down in Glenpool. 60 mile an hour winds caused minor damage to a house 1 mile northwest of Dewey, and trees were blown down 3 miles north of Welch and in Coweta. Several large tree limbs were blown down in Oilton, and quarter size hail fell 4 miles northeast of Grove. Dime size hail fell at the intersection of 11th Street South and Memorial Drive in the city of Tulsa, and dime size hail also fell at Porter. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Porter | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Porter | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Porter | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Porter | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Porter | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Porter | - | no account filed |
| December 2003 | Hail | Porter | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Porter | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Porter | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Porter | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Porter | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Porter | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Porter | - | no account filed |
| March 1999 | Hail | Porter | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Porter | - | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Hail | Porter | - | no account filed |
| November 1997 | Hail | Porter | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Porter | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Porter | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Porter | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Porter | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Porter | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | Porter | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Porter | - | 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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miller-Washington School | 3.4 miles | 1984 | |
| Red Bird City Hall | 3.6 miles | 1984 | |
 | Koweta Mission Site | 5.7 miles | 1973 |
 | First Presbyterian Church of Coweta | 6.3 miles | 2003 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 78002276 in Record Group 79. |
| Wagoner County | All 19 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.