New Cordell Courthouse Square Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The New Cordell Courthouse Square Historic District is a designated historic commercial district located in New Cordell, Washita County, Oklahoma. The district developed around the Washita County Courthouse, whose site was planned in 1897 when the town was originally laid out.”
Wikipedia article New Cordell Courthouse Square Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Washita County · listed in 1999 · category: District.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 53 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Roughly bounded by Temple, E. Second, Glenn English, and E. Clay Sts., New Cordell, 73632
When was it listed? January 1999
Category. district
Census division. Central Washita
National Register reference number. 98001592 - 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

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of New Cordell Courthouse Square Historic District between 2005 and 2011, burning about 6 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
23 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Concho Field Office	WALK
14 January 2011	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kickapoo Field Office	TIRE CREEK

Every fire recorded in Washita County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of New Cordell Courthouse Square Historic District: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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 Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Washita 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
	Washita County Courthouse	under 500 feet	1984
	Cordell Carnegie Public Library	under 500 feet	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001592 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washita 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.