Nash-Swindler House

Built in 1872. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Muskogee County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1872.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Maple and Jackson Sts., Fort Gibson, 74434
When was it listed? July 1979
Category. building
Census division. Muskogee
When was it built? 1872
National Register reference number. 79003640 - 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

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Nash-Swindler House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,690 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Arson/incendiarism	12
Debris and open burning	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3

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
31 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
20 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
18 August 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30377
18 August 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	18 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
14 August 1999	Debris and open burning	9.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
1 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	40307
24 July 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
21 July 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	25 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	30352

Every fire recorded in Muskogee County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Nash-Swindler House: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
H D Youngman Contr Limestone Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Arkhola #1	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Arkhola Mine #1	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Arkhola Roberts Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Cherokee Co Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Muskogee County

Storms near this property

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Gibson, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 3 hail. 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
October 1995	Hail	Fort Gibson	-	no account filed
October 1993	Hail	Fort Gibson	-	no account filed
October 1993	Hail	Fort Gibson	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Muskogee 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
Dragoon Commandant's Quarters	0.5 miles	1980
Seawell-Ross-Isom House	0.7 miles	1978
Administration Building-Post Hospital	0.7 miles	1985
Stone Barracks	0.8 miles	1966
Commandant's Quarters	0.9 miles	1985
Officer's Quarters	0.9 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79003640 in Record Group 79.
Muskogee County	All 52 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.