Whited Grist Mill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Whited Grist Mill is a historic gristmill located at the National Route 66 & Transportation Museum in Elk City, Oklahoma. Ruben Whited built the mill in 1903-04; his family operated the mill for its entire existence.”
Wikipedia article Whited Grist Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Beckham County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 306 E. 7th St., Elk City, 73644
When was it listed? January 1976
Category. building
Census division. Elk City
National Register reference number. 76001554 - 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

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Whited Grist Mill in 2006, burning about 20 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism	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
30 March 2006	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Concho Field Office	ELK 2

Every fire recorded in Beckham County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Whited Grist Mill: 2 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

Every working recorded in Beckham County

Storms near this property

60 of 167 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elk City, the town this property stands in, in 167 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 80 thunderstorm wind, 69 hail, 6 tornado, 6 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2001	Flash Flood	Elk City	1 hurt, $30,000	Several cars stalled in high water, and a young boy was swept into a drainage channel but pulled to safety.
May 2015	Flash Flood	Elk City	$500,000	Numerous homes flooded with water rescues ongoing.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$500,000	The roof of the Lincoln Teen Center was mostly removed by the strong winds, with another sustaining major damage. Numerous trees were blown down and several dumpsters were blown over. High voltage transmission structures and power lines were blown down. The Holiday Inn sign was also blown down. Monetary damages were estimated.
May 2015	Flash Flood	Elk City	$300,000	Significant flash flooding in Elk City. Numerous roads closed and impassable. Several water rescues occurred with water flooding several homes.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$50,000	Thunderstorm wind damage occurred in and around Elk City, including damage to a steel building, trees and powerlines. A tractor trailer was also overturned along Interstate 40. The location is approximate, and the event time is estimated based on radar observations and a nearby significant wind gust at Elk City Regional Business Airport.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$50,000	Numerous homes and structures were damaged including roofs removed. One home collapsed.
October 1998	Lightning	Elk City	$50,000	no account filed
April 2002	Tornado (F1)	Elk City	$40,000	This tornado was observed by the Elk City Fire Dept., near Highway 34, in northeast Beckham County. A sw-ne oriented, anchored mobile home was blown 50 yards northward with only the foundation remaining. A 16 foot stock trailer, oriented n-s, was twisted 180 degrees, and barns were destroyed.
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$40,000	A barn and camper were destroyed. Three fences were blown over. A barn and shed were damaged. A cattle semi-trailer was blown over, and roofs of a house and barn were blown off.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$40,000	no account filed
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$35,000	Severe thunderstorm winds in Elk City blew the roof off of one business and blew eight overhead doors out of several other businesses. On the edge of town an 11,000 pound tank trailer was blown onto its side and into a fence. Countless trees and limbs were snapped and signs were downed throughout town.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$30,000	Numerous social media images showing the front entryway of a Walmart Supercenter blown inward by thunderstorm wind. Time is radar estimated.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$25,000	Strong thunderstorm wind gusts blew over a double-wide trailer located on the northeast corner of the intersection of Highway 152 and Highway 6, south of Elk City. Stop signs were also blown over about a mile south of this intersection.
October 2001	Tornado (F1)	Elk City	$20,000	A5. Beckham County portion. This tornado ripped off the southwest corner off a mobile home and partially removed its roof in Beckham County.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$18,500	no account filed
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$15,000	Large power poles were blown down. Monetary damages were estimated.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$15,000	The roof and sign of a motel along Interstate 40 were damaged, and power lines were downed.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$15,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$13,000	no account filed
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$10,000	Large free-standing communications tower collapsed due to thunderstorm wind. Time is radar estimated.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$10,000	Phone call report of numerous power poles blown down and sporadic roof damage across Elk City. Time is radar estimated.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$10,000	A semi was blown over.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$9,000	no account filed
September 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$8,000	Power poles and associated power lines were downed along Highway 6. Monetary damages were estimated.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$6,000	Numerous tree limbs were blown down. Power was briefly out over parts of Elk City as well. Monetary damages were estimated.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$5,000	MPing report of tree and power pole damage.
December 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$5,000	Power lines were reported down on Merritt Road just north of I-40 at MM 34.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$5,000	no account filed
August 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$5,000	no account filed
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$5,000	no account filed
August 1998	Lightning	Elk City	$2,500	Lightning started a 30 acre grass fire that consumed a large fence. Severel fire departments battled the blaze for many hours.
August 1999	Lightning	Elk City	$2,500	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$2,000	no account filed
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$1,000	A barn was damaged by severe thunderstorm winds.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$1,000	Severe thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph downed trees, fences, and tree limbs.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$1,000	no account filed
August 1997	Hail	Elk City	$750	Hail as large as golf balls broke several windows and knocked holes in the siding of a house.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$500	Two inch diameter tree limbs were downed.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$500	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$200	A 150-foot section of a wooden fence was blown down.
October 2001	Tornado (F0)	Elk City	$100	B1. Beckham County portion. This tornado developed northeast of Elk City, near Eastern Ave., and eventually moved through portions of Washita and Custer Counties. Damage in Beckham County consisted of broken tree limbs.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$100	Eight to ten inch diameter trees and limbs were blown down by the strong winds.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	$10	Severe thunderstorm winds downed tree limbs.
April 2026	Hail	Elk City	-	The location is approximate.
April 2026	Hail	Elk City	-	The location is approximate.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	-	Elk City Regional Business Airport (KELK) observation.
April 2026	Hail	Elk City	-	The report was relayed through mPING.
April 2026	Hail	Elk City	-	Shared images showed accumulating small hail in Elk City. The location is approximate, and the event time is estimated based on radar observations.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	-	Elk City Regional Business Airport (KELK) observation.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	-	An estimated wind gust from a broadcast media storm chaser. The location is approximate.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	-	Elk City (ELKC) Mesonet observation.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	-	Elk City Regional Business Airport (KELK) observation.
May 2025	Hail	Elk City	-	The report was relayed through mPING.
May 2025	Hail	Elk City	-	An image was shared. The location is approximate, and the event time is estimated from radar observations.
June 2025	Hail	Elk City	-	The report was relayed through mPING.
June 2025	Hail	Elk City	-	The location is approximate.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	-	Elk City (ELKC) Mesonet observation.
June 2025	Hail	Elk City	-	The report was relayed through mPING.
June 2025	Hail	Elk City	-	The report was relayed through mPING.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	-	Elk City (ELKC) Mesonet observation.

Every storm recorded in Beckham 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.

Listed places nearby

3 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Hedlund Motor Company Building	0.3 miles	1983
Casa Grande Hotel	0.4 miles	1995
Storm House	0.6 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76001554 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Beckham County	All 13 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.