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One of 6 National Register listings published here for McClain County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Harris Palace Store
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 214 E. Ripley St., Byars, 74831
- When was it listed? September 2019
- Category. building
- Census division. East McClain
- National Register reference number. 100004399 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Harris Palace Store in 2004, burning about 5 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 April 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Chickasaw Agency | JOHNSON |
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Harris Palace Store: 4 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Silver. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Byars Southwest | Copper, Silver | Past Producer | 1850, 1851, 1913 | |
| Copper Prospect | Copper, Silver | Prospect | ||
| Unknown Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
35 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Byars, the town this property stands in, in 35 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 15 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Byars | $5,000 | Numerous chasers observed a tornado near state highway 59 to the east of Byars. An outbuilding was damaged by this tornado. Several trees were downed. A downed power line caused the town to be without power for several hours. Monetary damages were estimated. |
| June 2025 | Tornado (EF0) | Byars | $2,000 | Scattered tree damage was observed from Ward Avenue about 2 miles north of State Highway 59 to Johnsonville Road about a mile and a half north of Byars. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Byars | $10 | Large tree limbs were downed. |
| November 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Byars | - | Byars (BYAR) Mesonet observation. |
| November 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Byars | - | Byars (BYAR) Mesonet observation. |
| March 2020 | Flash Flood | Byars | - | Water flowing over the road near Byars. Other roads were washed out between Byars and Stratford. |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Byars | - | Water was covering roads in Byars making roads impassible. Bar ditches were full or overflowing on county roads. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Byars | - | No damage was reported. |
| December 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Byars | - | A brief weak tornado was reported. |
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Byars | - | Numerous storm chasers observed a tornado just to the west-southwest of Byars. However, no known damage was reported with this tornado. |
| April 2009 | Tornado (EF1) | Byars | - | This tornado developed west of Stratford in Garvin County and moved into McClain County about one half mile west of U.S. Highway 177. The tornado destroyed a greenhouse and damaged a barn to the west of the highway before crossing the highway and dissipating about one mile north of the county line. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Byars | - | Wind was measured by the Oklahoma mesonet. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Byars | - | A wishing well was blown over. |
| February 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Byars | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Byars | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Byars | - | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Hail | Byars | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Byars | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Byars | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Byars | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Byars | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Byars | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Byars | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Byars | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Byars | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Byars | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Byars | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Byars | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Byars | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Byars | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Byars | - | no account filed |
| January 1996 | Hail | Byars | - | no account filed |
| January 1996 | Hail | Byars | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Byars | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Byars | - | 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 100004399 in Record Group 79. |
| McClain County | All 6 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.