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One of 24 National Register listings published here for Canadian County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 408 Colorado Ave, Okarche, 73762
- When was it listed? May 2024
- Category. building
- Census division. El Reno
- National Register reference number. 100010406 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1996, 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 February 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Concho Field Office | TIGER |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church: 4 past producers. None of them 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
54 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Okarche, the town this property stands in, in 54 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 37 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2004 | Hail | Okarche | $500,000 | Hail broke the windshields of the Okarche Police Department cruisers. The large hail also heavily damaged school buildings breaking 61 windows and 26 skylights. The school roof and 4 vehicles were determined to be totaled. Several other homes and vehicles were also damaged. |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okarche | $130,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Okarche | $100,000 | Numerous county roads and bridges were closed county wide as torrential rain and sustained severe winds battered the county. In Calumet, portions of the town's water lines were washed out. In Mustang, HWY 152 was closed west of town. Numerous persons had to be rescued from their vehicles, but no injuries were reported. HWY 4 was closed in Mustang due to the high water. The wastewater treatment plant received some minor damage. In Okarche, the Prong bridge east of town was closed due to water running over top of it. The roadway was also closed near the Meyer Dairy Farm. In Piedmont, a car was washed off of Banner Road. The driver had to be rescued but was unharmed. The car was a total loss. The intersection of Apache and 206th street between Piedmont and Cemetery road was closed due to high water. Monetary damages were estimated. |
| August 1994 | Hail | Okarche | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Hail | Okarche | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Okarche | $5,000 | Tornado C1 (Canadain County portion). See summary at end of May 3rd storm reports. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okarche | $10 | Large tree limbs were downed. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okarche | $10 | Large tree limbs were downed. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Okarche | - | MPing report. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Okarche | - | MPing report. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Okarche | - | MPing report. |
| April 2017 | Flash Flood | Okarche | - | At least one city street was closed due to flash flooding between 9 and 930 am. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okarche | - | No damage was reported with the wind gust. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Okarche | - | The report was relayed by Fox 25 television. The Kingfisher county emergency manager also reported the hail. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okarche | - | Sustained winds were estimated near 60 mph for three to four minutes, with gusts of 70 to 80 mph. |
| March 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Okarche | - | Two funnel clouds developed south of Okarche with several chasers seeing one tornado touch down briefly. No known damage. |
| May 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Okarche | - | Tornado C2 (Canadian County portion). See summary at end of May 3rd storm reports. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| October 1998 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Hail | Okarche | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Hail | Okarche | - | 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.
Listed places nearby
1 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Mennoville Mennonite Church | 6.0 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010406 in Record Group 79. |
| Canadian County | All 24 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.