McAllister House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“McAllister House in Seiling, Oklahoma is a Bungalow/Craftsman-style house was built in 1920; it was built for Pat and Belva McAllister. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.”
Wikipedia article McAllister House (Seiling, Oklahoma), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Dewey County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 311 N. Locust St., Seiling, 73663
When was it listed? February 1997
Category. building
Census division. Seiling
National Register reference number. 97000196 - 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

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of McAllister House between 1996 and 2020, burning about 3,212 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Fireworks	1
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
12 September 2000	Natural	5.0 acres	Concho Field Office	SLEEPY
30 July 2012	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Concho Field Office	BULLCOMING
30 June 2020	Fireworks	under an acre	Concho Field Office	RAMBO
25 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Concho Field Office	HILLTOP
20 June 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	381 acres	Concho Field Office	INDIAN SCHOOL
20 June 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Concho Field Office	GILCHRIST
12 June 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Concho Field Office	SUNDANCE
4 May 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2,657 acres	Concho Field Office	270

Every fire recorded in Dewey County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of McAllister House: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Dewey County

Storms near this property

50 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seiling, the town this property stands in, in 50 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 37 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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 2002	Tornado (F1)	Seiling	$40,000	This tornado formed approximately 5.5 miles east southeast of Seiling and moved northwestward for 1 mile before dissipating. One-half of a well-constructed, anchored mobile home was ripped off with contents of the home strewn in the yard. The other half of the home was twisted in the direction the tornado traveled. Two large locust trees were also uprooted.
April 2002	Tornado (F3)	Seiling	$20,000	This tornado formed in northern Dewey County, near Cestos, and moved northward, entering Woodward County at 2241 CST. In Dewey County, an old, abandoned farm house, constructed of wood, with broken windows and no doors, was leveled, about 2.5 miles east-southeast of Cestos. Huge cottonwood trees nearby were uprooted. A 15 ft long bus, with no engine, was lofted over a chain-link fence and dropped on its side about 50-75 ft away, and a 1/2 ton pickup trailer bed, detached from the front of the truck, was picked up and carried about 1/2 mile, and crumpled.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Seiling	$15,000	Roof was blown off a house with an outbuilding blown into a separate house. Windows also broken in Seiling.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Seiling	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds destroyed an RV on the north side of Seiling. The time of the wind is estimated.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Seiling	$5,000	Numerous tree limbs were downed across the town of Seiling. Monetary damages were estimated.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Seiling	$1,000	The tops of several trees were blown off.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Seiling	$500	no account filed
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Seiling	$50	Several tree limbs were downed.
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Seiling	$10	no account filed
April 2026	Hail	Seiling	-	The report was relayed through mPING.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Seiling	-	Winds estimated based on observations.
April 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Seiling	-	No damage was reported.
May 2015	Tornado (EF0)	Seiling	-	A storm chaser with KOKH observed a tornado east-southeast of Seiling. No damage was reported and the location is estimated.
September 2012	Hail	Seiling	-	Law enforcement reported 1.25 hail.
August 2009	Hail	Seiling	-	Quarter to golf ball-size hail was reported.
August 2009	Hail	Seiling	-	The hail was reported by KWTV-9.
July 2009	Hail	Seiling	-	The hail was reported on Indian Road.
March 2008	Hail	Seiling	-	The hail was reported by a local television station storm tracker.
June 2007	Hail	Seiling	-	The report was relayed by the National Severe Storms Laboratory Hail Verification project.
April 2004	Hail	Seiling	-	Hail was reported six inches deep on Highway 270.
April 2024	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
April 2017	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
April 2017	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
October 2016	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
March 2008	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
April 2008	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
June 2007	Heavy Rain	Seiling	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
March 1996	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
May 1994	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed
May 1993	Hail	Seiling	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dewey 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

2 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
	Seiling Milling Company	2.2 miles	1983
	Dewey County Courthouse	7.9 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000196 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dewey County	All 4 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.