Oakley High School Stadium

Built in 1938 (modern architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“The Oakley High School Stadium, also known as Irwin Stadium, Irwin Field and as KHRI# 109-51, in Oakley, Kansas was built in 1939 by a New Deal works program, the Works Progress Administration (WPA). It has served at football games and track meets from 1939 to date.”
Wikipedia article Oakley High School Stadium, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Logan County · listed in 2013 · category: Building · built in 1938, modern architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 118 W. 7th St., Oakley, 67748
When was it listed? April 2013
Category. building
Also known as. New Deal-Era Resources of Kansas MPS
When was it built? 1938
Architectural style. modern architecture
National Register reference number. 13000150 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

5 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Oakley High School Stadium between 2016 and 2018, burning about 1,210 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
30 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Logan County	17017
7 March 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	7.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	18012
27 February 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	18011
15 February 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,200 acres	Logan County	17004
8 October 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	16011

Every fire recorded in Logan 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 Oakley High School Stadium: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. 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
Meeds Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Siebert Oakley Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Siebert Sand Fulton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms near this property

60 of 186 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakley, the town this property stands in, in 186 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 116 hail, 59 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 4 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
July 2013	Hail	Oakley	$200,000	Numerous reports from emergency manager (EM), trained spotters and the public were received in a short period of time with hail sizes ranging from 1.25 up to 2.50 in diameter. The EM estimated at least 100 vehicles in town suffered some type of hail damage, with some having windshields or other glass broken. Two med-flight aircraft also had damage.
October 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	$80,000	Logan County Emergency Manager reported a center pivot blown over just south of the city of Oakley as the line of storms moved over.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	$65,000	A couple of traffic signs were blown down in town. Just south and west of the intersection of U.S. 83 and U.S. 40, an irrigation sprinkler was overturned, a grain bin was buckled in and loosened from its mounting, and about 10 utility poles were broken.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	$50,000	A metal machine shed was destroyed on CR 410 a half mile north of CR Broken Bow.
August 1993	Hail	Oakley	$50,000	Baseball-size hail broke windows, windshields, dented vehicles and damaged many roofs.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	$12,000	High wind gusts broke out windows at the Travel Stop on I-70; minor injuries were reported from flying glass. Estimated time of report from radar.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	$5,000	Numerous trees down in Oakley, including a large tree at city hall. Power lines reported down.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	$4,500	Measured four or five 10-12 inch diameter healthy tree limbs blown down in town.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	$2,000	Local emergency management estimated 60 mph winds in Oakley. They also reported that some 12 inch tree branches had been blown down.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	$2,000	Numerous large tree limbs of assorted sizes blown down and siding blown off a house in southwest Oakley.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	$1,000	Multiple reports received of large tree limbs down of unknown size in the city of Oakley.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	$1,000	Several six to eight inch diameter tree limbs were blown down. A few trees were also blown over. A couple of canopies on downtown buildings were blown off. Time of report estimated from Doppler radar.
May 2010	Hail	Oakley	$1,000	Car windows were reported broken.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	$1,000	Newspaper reported tree limbs broken and antenna poles bent. Sizes unknown.
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	$1,000	no account filed
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	$750	Logan County Emergency Manager reported power line blown down due to strong 50-60 mph wind gusts. Brownout conditions were reported due to blowing dust.
May 2008	Hail	Oakley	$750	Storm was accompanied by heavy rainfall and hail broke windows.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	$500	Emergency manager reported several 2 inch live tree limbs and one 7 inch limb from a rotted tree down. Damage was caused by strong winds from an outflow boundary associated with a strong thunderstorm on the north side of I-70.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	$400	Half mile west of Oakley on County Road A, time estimated. Bin for ground cane storage was moved off its foundation 3 inches, in addition to short round top cover being picked up and set back on a fence. The round top was anchored 18 inches to ground with T-posts.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	$250	Stop signs and three-inch diameter tree limbs were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	-	The wind gust was reported via Ambient Weather Station Dog_House.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	-	A trained spotter reports 2 inch green tree limb down in Oakley.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	-	Up to 3.5 inch diameter tree limbs were blown down in town. A 54 mph wind gust was reported at the Oakley Airport at 16:29 as well.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	-	Reported via Ambient weather station Dog House.
May 2023	Hail	Oakley	-	The hail ranged from pea to quarter in size.
June 2023	Hail	Oakley	-	Delayed report CoCoRaHS observer reported 1.75 inch maximum hail size and the hail lasted for 5 minutes. 1.55 inches of rain were also reported. Station ID is KS-LG-15.
August 2023	Hail	Oakley	-	Quarter sized hail reported ongoing at location.
August 2023	Hail	Oakley	-	Quarter sized hail reported at location.
August 2023	Hail	Oakley	-	Quarter sized hail reported at location.
August 2023	Hail	Oakley	-	Quarter sized hail reported at location.
August 2021	Hail	Oakley	-	Report received of hail up to penny size at location.
August 2021	Hail	Oakley	-	Report received of half dollar sized hail at location.
August 2021	Hail	Oakley	-	Reports received of hail ranging from half inch to golf ball sized near location. Time is radar-estimated.
June 2020	Hail	Oakley	-	Dime to penny size hail fell at the location.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	-	Logan County Emergency Manager reported wind driven rain with small hail that significantly reduced visibilities in Oakley. Winds were estimated at 60 mph.
August 2020	Hail	Oakley	-	Several reports from social media and Logan County Emergency Manager of small hail ranging from peas to penny in size that fell for a duration of approximately 10 minutes in the town of Oakley.
August 2020	Hail	Oakley	-	A report was received over Facebook of a few tennis ball sized hailstones mixed with nickel sized falling in the town of Oakley.
July 2020	Hail	Oakley	-	Emergency manager reported hail in Oakley that varied in size from dime to 1.5 inches.
September 2019	Hail	Oakley	-	Strong supercell-type thunderstorm produced hail up to 1.125 inches in diameter near Oakley, KS.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	-	A member of the public estimated 70 mph wind gusts in Oakley.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	-	Atleast one tree was uprooted two more that were blown over, another tree that was larger than a foot in diameter snapped at its base, and numerous branches broken off ranging in size from less an inch to over nine inches in diameter. Shingles were also seen flying through the air.
June 2018	Hail	Oakley	-	The hail ranged from hen egg to apple in size. The hail broke an unknown number of windshields were broken and cars had major hail dents. The hail also stripped some of the trees in town.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	-	Thunderstorm winds were strong enough to cause a dust storm in the Oakley area.
May 2017	Flash Flood	Oakley	-	Three to seven inches of rain fell just northwest of the Highway 40/CR 400 intersection, with the higher amounts uphill just across the county line. The flood waters from the heavy rainfall were over Highway 40 a half mile west of this intersection.
May 2017	Flood	Oakley	-	Flood waters continued running over Highway 40 after the rainfall ended.
June 2017	Hail	Oakley	-	The hail ranged from nickel to ping-pong ball size.
October 2017	Hail	Oakley	-	The hail ranged from quarter to ping-pong ball size.
May 2016	Hail	Oakley	-	The largest hail stones ranged from ping-pong to golf ball size. The hail continued to fall into the following morning.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	-	Six inch diameter tree limbs were blown down in town.
May 2016	Hail	Oakley	-	The largest hail stones ranged from ping-pong ball to hen egg size.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	-	Tree limbs up to one inch in diameter blown down in town.
August 2015	Hail	Oakley	-	Hail stones started out as penny size then increased to half dollar size. 0.71 of rainfall also fell with the hail.
August 2015	Hail	Oakley	-	Quarter size hail may be accompanied by slightly larger hail.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	-	Numerous five inch diameter tree limbs blown down and dumpsters blown over. Zero visibility due to the blowing dust from the high winds. Minor damage sustained to vehicles and buildings from the high winds and hail. There was a power outage west of town for two hours. The sustained wind reached 60 MPH for a brief time during the high winds, with winds gusting up to 82 MPH.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	-	Emergency manager reported numerous 2-inch diameter live tree branches were blown down across Oakley from thunderstorm winds.
August 2014	Hail	Oakley	-	The cooperative observer also reported 1.80 inches of rain fell in about 15 minutes just after this hail report around 6:30 pm CDT.
June 2014	Flood	Oakley	-	Overnight heavy rainfall continued to cause problems on area roads into the early afternoon hours. Radar estimated 5 inches of rain fell just before sunrise west of Oakley. County crews barricaded many roads until the water subsided.
April 2014	Hail	Oakley	-	Hail lasted for ten minutes. Heavy rain occurred with minor street flooding.
April 2014	Hail	Oakley	-	Hail one-half inch to one inch in diameter occurred with heavy rain and wind estimated at 30 to 40 mph. The ground is starting to become white with accumulating hail.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000150 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Logan 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.