Hotel Aldridge

Built in 1927. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Hotel Aldridge in Wewoka, Oklahoma is a brick building that was built in 1927, four years after the Wewoka Pool of the Seminole Oil Field was opened. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.”
Wikipedia article Hotel Aldridge (Wewoka, Oklahoma), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Seminole County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1927.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Third and Wenoka Sts., Wenoka, 74884
When was it listed? May 1986
Category. building
Census division. Wewoka
When was it built? 1927
National Register reference number. 86001083 - 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

60 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Hotel Aldridge between 2000 and 2020, burning about 13,445 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	23
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
14 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wewoka Agency	WEWOKA FIRE
12 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	250 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	PALMER
3 August 2012	Recreation and ceremony	151 acres	Wewoka Agency	ANNI TIGER
27 July 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	9.4 acres	Wewoka Agency	HAY MACHINE
26 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	22 acres	Wewoka Agency	HWY 270
26 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wewoka Agency	BOOTS
23 July 2008	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Wewoka Agency	J. WALKER
22 July 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wewoka Agency	HARRISON

Every fire recorded in Seminole County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Hotel Aldridge: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unknown Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Commercial Brick Co Shale Pit	Clay	Producer
United Clay Pipe Co Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Wewoka Brick & Tile Co Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Wewoka Brick & Tile Co Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Seminole 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
Seminole Whipping Tree	under 500 feet	1981
Seminole County Courthouse	under 500 feet	1984
J. Coody Johnson Building	0.2 miles	1985
Silas L. Brown House	0.3 miles	1985
Wewoka Switch and Side Tracks	0.3 miles	1985
Wewoka Switch and Side Tracks	0.4 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001083 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Seminole County	All 19 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.