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Camp Nichols

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Camp Nichols, also known as Fort Nichols or Camp Nichols Ranch, was a short-lived historic fortification located in present-day Cimarron County, Oklahoma, about 3 miles (4.8 km) northwest of the community of Wheeless, Oklahoma. It was built by New Mexico and California volunteers under the command of Col.”

Wikipedia article Camp Nichols, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Cimarron County · listed in 1966 · category: Site · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 3 mi. NE of Wheeless on Ranch Rd., Wheeless, 73933
  • When was it listed? October 1966
  • Category. site
  • Census division. Boise City
  • National Register reference number. 66000628 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Camp Nichols: 1 past producer. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cimarron County

Storms near this property

20 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wheeless, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 14 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2003Tornado (F1)Wheeless$45,000The tornado remained over open country. No injuries were reported.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindWheeless$8,000A trained spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts in excess of sixty-one knots which downed trees and power lines.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindWheeless-Some trees were blown over from thunderstorm winds.
June 2023HailWheeless-Multiple reports of hail between 1 and 1.75 in diameter were received from 6 miles east of Wheeless to 10 miles NNE of Felt. A trained spotter did report hail accumulating up to 3 deep 10 NNE of Felt.
May 2018HailWheeless-Mping report.
May 2016HailWheeless-Quarter size hail fell 5 miles west of Wheeless.
April 2016HailWheeless-Half dollar size hail was reported 3 miles west of Wheeless.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindWheeless-Severe thunderstorm winds caused tree limb damage 16 miles west of Boise City.
June 2013Heavy RainWheeless-A discrete thunderstorm that moved out of northeastern New Mexico and into the western Oklahoma Panhandle. A trained spotter 2 miles west of Wheeless (Cimarron County) reported 1.10 inches of heavy rain in one hour as the thunderstorm moved overhead.This thunderstorm quickly moved into the northwestern Texas Panhandle. No flooding issues were reported in association with this heavy rain.
May 2010HailWheeless-The Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported golf ball to tennis ball size hail on Oklahoma State Highway 325.
August 2024HailWheeless-no account filed
June 2023HailWheeless-no account filed
July 2019HailWheeless-no account filed
August 2019HailWheeless-no account filed
June 2018Funnel CloudWheeless-no account filed
May 2018HailWheeless-no account filed
April 2012HailWheeless-no account filed
April 2009HailWheeless-no account filed
May 2006HailWheeless-no account filed
June 2003HailWheeless-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cimarron County

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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 66000628 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cimarron CountyAll 2 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.