Antelope Hills

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Antelope Hills are a series of low hills in the bend of the Canadian River in northwest Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, near the border between western Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle. They were a major landmark for the Plains Indians and travelers on what is now the western plains of Oklahoma.”
Wikipedia article Antelope Hills, Oklahoma, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Roger Mills County · listed in 1978 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. N of Durham, Durham, 73642
When was it listed? December 1978
Category. site
Census division. Cheyenne
National Register reference number. 78002259 - 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 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Antelope Hills in 2007, burning about 100 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
6 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	100 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Roger Mills County

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 Antelope Hills: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Roger Mills County

Storms near this property

25 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Durham, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 16 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
June 2025	Tornado (EF2)	Durham	$30,000	This tornado moved into northwestern Roger Mills County from Ellis County and into the Antelope Hills region. As the tornado crossed County Roads N1760 and N1757, the tornado snapped many trees and partially debarked some. Two oil field outbuildings were also damaged in this area. Many trees were also snapped and uprooted nnear County Road N1780 and a few power poles were snapped. The tornado then turned south-southeast and damaged more trees and a barn after crossing County Road E0785. The tornado dissipated soon after this.
November 2012	Hail	Durham	$5,000	Quarter to golf ball sized hail was reported in Durham. The hail resulted in damage to several home windows.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Durham	$100	no account filed
June 2023	Tornado (EFU)	Durham	-	A storm chaser reported a tornado southwest of Durham in far western Roger Mills County. No damage is known to have occurred and the tornado path is estimated.
May 2016	Tornado (EF1)	Durham	-	A tornado moved from the Texas panhandle into northwestern Roger Mills County about 5 miles west-northwest of Durham. Two large trees were snapped just inside Oklahoma.
April 2015	Hail	Durham	-	No known damage.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Durham	-	No known damage.
November 2012	Hail	Durham	-	No damage was reported.
November 2012	Hail	Durham	-	No damage was reported.
September 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Durham	-	No damage was reported with the wind gust.
May 2016	Hail	Durham	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Durham	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Durham	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Durham	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Durham	-	no account filed
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Durham	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Durham	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Durham	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Durham	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Durham	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Durham	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Durham	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Durham	-	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	Durham	-	no account filed
May 1993	Hail	Durham	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roger Mills 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 record	The nomination case file for reference 78002259 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Roger Mills County	All 4 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.