BlockFrom the record
One of 4 National Register listings published here for Roger Mills County · listed in 2005 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Break O'Day Farm
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
The listing
- Address. 0.5 mi. SE of jct of E0680 Rd. and N1750 Rd., Durham, 73642
- When was it listed? June 2005
- Category. district
- Census division. Cheyenne
- National Register reference number. 05000616 - 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
39 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Break O'Day Farm between 2001 and 2020, burning about 8,320 acres in total. 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | BAIT SHOP |
| 23 September 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | BACA |
| 8 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | WASHITA |
| 7 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | COYOTE |
| 4 August 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | BARKER |
| 3 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Cibola National Forest | SNAIL |
| 3 August 2011 | Natural | 3.5 acres | Cibola National Forest | UNIT 22 SOUTH |
| 2 August 2012 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.3 acres | Cibola National Forest | NORTH TANK |
Storms near this property
25 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Durham, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 16 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Tornado (EF2) | Durham | $30,000 | This tornado moved into northwestern Roger Mills County from Ellis County and into the Antelope Hills region. As the tornado crossed County Roads N1760 and N1757, the tornado snapped many trees and partially debarked some. Two oil field outbuildings were also damaged in this area. Many trees were also snapped and uprooted nnear County Road N1780 and a few power poles were snapped. The tornado then turned south-southeast and damaged more trees and a barn after crossing County Road E0785. The tornado dissipated soon after this. |
| November 2012 | Hail | Durham | $5,000 | Quarter to golf ball sized hail was reported in Durham. The hail resulted in damage to several home windows. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Durham | $100 | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Tornado (EFU) | Durham | - | A storm chaser reported a tornado southwest of Durham in far western Roger Mills County. No damage is known to have occurred and the tornado path is estimated. |
| May 2016 | Tornado (EF1) | Durham | - | A tornado moved from the Texas panhandle into northwestern Roger Mills County about 5 miles west-northwest of Durham. Two large trees were snapped just inside Oklahoma. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Durham | - | No known damage. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Durham | - | No known damage. |
| November 2012 | Hail | Durham | - | No damage was reported. |
| November 2012 | Hail | Durham | - | No damage was reported. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Durham | - | No damage was reported with the wind gust. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Durham | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Durham | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Durham | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Durham | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Durham | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Durham | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Durham | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Durham | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Durham | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Durham | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Durham | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Durham | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Durham | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Durham | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | Durham | - | no account filed |
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 05000616 in Record Group 79. |
| Roger Mills 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.
- 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.