BlockFrom the record
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Haskell County · listed in 1980 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Cotton Storage House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Off OK 2, Kinta, 74552
- When was it listed? January 1980
- Category. structure
- Census division. West Haskell
- National Register reference number. 80003263 - 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
170 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Cotton Storage House between 1992 and 2018, burning about 8,163 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 63 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 | 65 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 63 |
| Debris and open burning | 29 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| 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.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20226 |
| 30 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20445 |
| 30 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 14 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 September 2002 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Talihina Agency | EC270 |
| 27 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | Talihina Agency | EC271 |
| 27 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Talihina Agency | EC272 |
Storms near this property
38 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kinta, the town this property stands in, in 38 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 19 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2017 | Flash Flood | Kinta | $500,000 | Approximately 40 structures were damaged by flood waters. Numerous roads were flooded in town. |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F2) | Kinta | $60,000 | An F2 tornado destroyed one single family dwelling, while another single family dwelling received major damage. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Kinta | $50,000 | Baseball size hail damaged homes and automobiles. |
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Kinta | $30,000 | A tornado damaged two barns, uprooted a tree, and damaged a home on the east side of town. |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinta | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour damaged outbuildings. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinta | $2,000 | Trees and power poles were blown down by strong thunderstorm wind. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinta | $1,000 | Numerous trees were blown down near Kinta. |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinta | $500 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinta | $100 | A severe thunderstorm produced strong winds which downed numerous large tree limbs in Kinta. |
| December 2015 | Flood | Kinta | - | Portions of Highway 31 between Highway 2 and Highway 82 were closed due to flooding. |
| December 2015 | Flood | Kinta | - | Portions of Highway 31 between Highway 2 and Highway 82 were closed due to flooding. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinta | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a small tree and snapped large tree limbs. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinta | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down multiple trees. |
| December 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinta | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Kinta | - | Heavy thunderstorm rains caused flooding in Kinta. |
| April 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Kinta | - | An amateur radio operator reported a tornado one mile east of Kinta. No damage was reported. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| January 1995 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinta | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Store | under 500 feet | 1980 | |
 | Kinta High School | 0.8 miles | 1988 |
| Edmund McCurtain House | 4.0 miles | 1980 | |
| Green McCurtain House | 4.3 miles | 1971 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80003263 in Record Group 79. |
| Haskell County | All 9 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.
- 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.