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One of 36 National Register listings published here for Garfield County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Covington Jail
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. 514 W. Main St., Covington, 73730
- When was it listed? October 2024
- Category. building
- Also known as. Calabooses (Tiny Jails) in Oklahoma 1904 - 1940 MPS; Calabooses (Early Jails) in Oklahoma MPS
- Census division. South Garfield
- National Register reference number. 100010778 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Covington Jail: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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 Shale Pit | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
30 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Covington, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 22 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1999 | Tornado (F2) | Covington | $25,000 | Tornado H4 (Garfield County portion). See summary at end of May 3rd storm reports. |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Covington | $5,000 | A couple of power lines and one pole was blown down near Highway 74. Monetary damages were estimated. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Covington | - | An image was relayed by emergency management. |
| March 2009 | Hail | Covington | - | Reports of dime to nickel size hail were relayed by the county EM. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Covington | - | Hail was reported by KWTV Channel 9. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Covington | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Covington | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Covington | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Covington | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Covington | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Covington | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Covington | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Covington | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Covington | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Covington | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Covington | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Flash Flood | Covington | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Covington | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Hail | Covington | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Covington | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Covington | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | Covington | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Covington | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Covington | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Covington | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Covington | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Covington | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Covington | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Covington | - | no account filed |
| October 1994 | Hail | Covington | - | 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| R. E. Hoy No. 1 Oil Well | 3.7 miles | 1986 | |
 | Kimmell Barn | 4.9 miles | 1984 |
 | Santa Fe Freight Depot | 5.8 miles | 2015 |
 | Robert R. and Minnie L. Kisner House | 6.1 miles | 2015 |
 | Public Library of Enid and Garfield County | 6.2 miles | 2015 |
 | Marshall Hall | 6.9 miles | 2015 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010778 in Record Group 79. |
| Garfield County | All 36 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.
- 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.