Rock Front

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

One of 14 National Register listings published here for McIntosh County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.

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. Broadway, Vernon, 74845
When was it listed? June 1984
Category. building
Census division. Hanna
National Register reference number. 84003152 - 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

114 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Rock Front between 2004 and 2020, burning about 26,445 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 30 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	39
Debris and open burning	35
Arson/incendiarism	30
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	1
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2012	Natural	104 acres	Okmulgee Field Office	RATTLESNAKE HOLLOW
22 September 2004	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Okmulgee Field Office	VERNON CRK
15 September 2004	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Okmulgee Field Office	HANNA CRK
8 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	331 acres	Okmulgee Field Office	MILL CREEK
4 August 2016	Debris and open burning	7.3 acres	Okmulgee Field Office	PROCTOR
3 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	159 acres	Okmulgee Field Office	MUDDY WATER
27 August 2016	Debris and open burning	127 acres	Okmulgee Field Office	LEWIS
12 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.8 acres	Okmulgee Field Office	BLOCK HOUSE

Every fire recorded in McIntosh County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rock Front: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
	Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in McIntosh County

Storms near this property

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vernon, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2003: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Vernon	-	no account filed
March 1996	Hail	Vernon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in McIntosh 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Baccus House	0.1 miles	2025

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84003152 in Record Group 79.
McIntosh County	All 14 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.