Alva, Oklahoma

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 records

• Central National Banklisted 1984
• Alva Armorylisted 1988
• Branson Buildinglisted 1984
• Building at 405-407 College Avenuelisted 1984
• Building at 409 College Avenuelisted 1984
• Building at 500 Flynn Streetlisted 1984
• Hotel Belllisted 2013
• I.O.O.F. Halllisted 1984
• Kavanaugh and Shea Buildinglisted 1984
• Nickel Ensor McClure Houselisted 2010
• Science Halllisted 1983
• Stine Buildinglisted 1982

Alva grew from 4,945 to 5,028 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1955 USGS Woodward quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Woodward quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1969 USGS Alva quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Alva quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Alva quadrangle1:100000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Alva: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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.

Every working recorded in Woods County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alva in 138 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 86 thunderstorm wind, 47 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

Every storm recorded in Woods County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1089605. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.