Morris House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Logan County · listed in 1994 · 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. 221 Tolson Blvd., Langston, 73027
When was it listed? September 1994
Category. building
Census division. East Logan
National Register reference number. 94001082 - 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

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Morris House in 2006, burning about 4 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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
Natural	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
15 February 2006	Natural	4.0 acres	Pawnee Agency	LANGSTON

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Storms near this property

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Langston, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 11 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
May 2019	Flash Flood	Langston	$10,000	Report that old Hwy 33 and Henney road is washed out.
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Langston	$4,000	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Langston	$750	A tree along with some limbs were downed.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Langston	-	Relayed video. Estimated wind gust.
May 2019	Hail	Langston	-	Time based on radar.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Langston	-	Trees downed in Langston.
May 2019	Hail	Langston	-	Nickel sized hail at OK-33 and Henney Rd.
April 2009	Tornado (EF1)	Langston	-	A brief tornado struck a group of four homes near Langston. All four homes sustained significant damage, including a two story home where the second floor was destroyed. Significant roof damage was noted on the other homes, as well as damage to walls and windows. The tornado caused significant damage to trees and power poles, including several that had been snapped. A few outbuildings and sheds were also heavily damaged at this location. No injuries were reported with the tornado. Damage estimates were not given.
May 2002	Flash Flood	Langston	-	Flash flooding was reported on Highway 33.
April 2024	Hail	Langston	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Langston	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Langston	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Langston	-	no account filed
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Langston	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Langston	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Langston	-	no account filed
October 2007	Hail	Langston	-	no account filed
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Langston	-	no account filed
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Langston	-	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Langston	-	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Langston	-	no account filed
September 1996	Hail	Langston	-	no account filed
April 1994	Hail	Langston	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Melvin B. Tolson House	under 500 feet	2026
Langston Jail	0.3 miles	2025
Langston University Cottage Row Historic District	0.5 miles	1999
Ozark Trails-Indian Meridian Obelisk	0.5 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94001082 in Record Group 79.
Logan County	All 18 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.