Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
From the record
“The Seminole County Courthouse is a two-story red brick courthouse building whose original, central portion was built in 1927. It was expanded in 1939 in a Works Progress Administration project, and other renovation was done in the 1970s, compatibly with the original design.”
Wikipedia article Seminole County Courthouse (Oklahoma), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 19 National Register listings published here for Seminole County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.84003429- 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
61 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Seminole County Courthouse
between 2000 and 2020, burning about 13,453 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 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
Debris and open burning
24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
9
Equipment and vehicle use
9
Arson/incendiarism
9
Recreation and ceremony
2
Other causes
2
Natural
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Smoking
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
15 workings within 5 miles of Seminole County Courthouse: 14 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Wewoka, the town this property stands in, in 51 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 29 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.
The roof of a pole barn was damaged and multiple trees and power poles were blown down in and near the community of Wewoka. The location is approximate, and the event time is estimated from radar observations.
Thunderstorms in northern and central Oklahoma during the morning and early afternoon hours of the 14th produced hail up to quarter-size, damaging winds and damaging lightning. Thunderstorm winds damaged hanger doors and one terminal door and damaged a plane by blowing a dumpster into it at the Stillwater Airport 1.5 miles north of Stillwater. Thunderstorm winds downed tree limbs 6 miles east of Garber and downed power lines and toppled signs 5 miles south of Wewoka. A lightning strike produced minor damage to the roof of a church in Anadarko
A tornado developed near the apex of a bow echo, and moved north-northwest along the leading edge of the bow echo as the storm complex moved east. Significant roof and exterior wall damage occurred to a house near where the tornado initially touched down. The tornado continued to move north-northwest for two miles continuing to produce tree damage and scattered roof and outbuilding damage.
Several roads in Wewoka were closed due to high water, including Seminole Street, and 14th and Ocheesee. At least 20 other roads were closed across the county.
At 11:00 pm CST and 2:00 am CST, a county emergency management official reported that the local EW125 Road was closed at Nobletown due to high water along Wewoka Creek.
Surveys revealed that a narrow tornado touched down around 711 pm 3 miles west-southwest of Maud in Pottawatomie County where it destroyed a barn. The tornado then moved east destroying another barn about one-half mile south of Maud as it crossed into Seminole county. It lifted 1/2 mile east of the Seminole County line at around 715 pm. The tornado was rated F1.
Surveys showed that at about 735 pm, a tornado touched down about 1/2 mile southwest of the intersection of US-270 and SH-59, or about 2.5 miles southwest of Wewoka. The storm moved east through the south side of Wewoka causing damage in a neighborhood in the southwest side of Wewoka and along state highway 56 in the south part of town. The tornado continued moving east destroying two mobile homes southeast of Wewoka before crossing into Hughes County. It caused minor damage to a couple of homes and unroofed a mobile home near State Highway 48. The tornado then turned northeast and apparently merged with the Yeager tornado (see separate Storm Data entry) just northeast of the intersection of State Highway 48 and county road EW129. This tornado was on the ground for 8 miles and had a maximum width of 1/3 of a mile. The tornado was rated F2 (winds estimated between 113 and 157 mph) based on damage in southwest Wewoka including a brick house unroofed and the south exterior wall blown in. Eyewitness reports indicate that this was likely a multiple vortex tornado.
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.
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.
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