Edmund McCurtain House

Built in 1866. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Edmund McCurtain House, in Haskell County, Oklahoma near Kinta, Oklahoma, was built in 1866. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article Edmund McCurtain House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Haskell County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1866.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. McCurtain, Edmund, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. NE of Kinta, Kinta, 74552
When was it listed? June 1980
Category. building
Census division. West Haskell
When was it built? 1866
National Register reference number. 80003265 - 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

117 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Edmund McCurtain House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,793 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 35 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	47
Arson/incendiarism	35
Debris and open burning	19
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	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
30 September 2011	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20445
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
13 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
10 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	200 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	AIRPORT
6 August 2015	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
6 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	20431

Every fire recorded in Haskell County

Storms near this property

38 since 1995

Regional 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

Every storm recorded in Haskell 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

4 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
Green McCurtain House	0.3 miles	1971
Scott Store	4.0 miles	1980
Cotton Storage House	4.0 miles	1980
Kinta High School	4.5 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80003265 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.