Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
From the record
“The Mathews-Powell House is a Victorian house located in Queen City, Texas, United States. The house was dedicated as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1973 and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on September 22, 1977.”
Wikipedia article Mathews-Powell House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 4 National Register listings published here for Cass County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.77001431- 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
296 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 296 fires within 5 miles of Mathews-Powell House
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 918 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 24 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
175
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
50
Arson/incendiarism
24
Equipment and vehicle use
16
Railroad operations and maintenance
9
Natural
9
Power generation/transmission/distribution
8
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Recreation and ceremony
1
Smoking
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
2 workings within 5 miles of Mathews-Powell House: 1 past producer, 1 unknown.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Queen City, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 tornado, 1 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.
An EF0 tornado touched down on the west side of Queen City at around 7:41 PM CDT, about one mile west of Queen City, along Highway 96, where it uprooted a large tree. The tornado proceeded into Queen City where it caused damage to several large tree limbs and branches and caused moderate damage to the roof of a building. This tornado then exited Cass County, Texas and moved into Miller County, Arkansas.
A strong thunderstorm moved rapidly southeast across McCurtain County, OK into Bowie and Cass County, TX. This thunderstorm also produced a strong microburst in McCurtain County southwest of Idabel, OK and again southeast of Maud, TX located in Bowie County. Numerous small trees and limbs were either snapped or pushed over along the track. No homes or other structures were in the direct path of this 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.
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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