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One of 33 National Register listings published here for Payne County · listed in 1979 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Hopkins Sandstone House and Farmstead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss, 2 structuress, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. NE of Ripley, Ripley, 74023
- When was it listed? May 1979
- Category. district
- Census division. Stillwater
- National Register reference number. 79002017 - 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
2 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Hopkins Sandstone House and Farmstead between 2006 and 2019, burning about 26 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 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 August 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Pawnee Agency | BEST BUY |
| 24 November 2019 | Debris and open burning | 24 acres | Pawnee Agency | COUNCIL |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 43 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of Hopkins Sandstone House and Farmstead: 38 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ripley East | Copper | Occurrence | 1955 | |
| Ripley East Southeast | Copper | Occurrence | 1955 | |
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Stewart Rock Co. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Stewart Stone-Cushing | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
24 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ripley, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 15 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ripley | $500 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ripley | $200 | Trees were downed. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ripley | - | Unspecified damage reported as well as some trees down and power outage in Ripley. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ripley | - | Tree limbs of two to four inches downed on highway 108. |
| March 2015 | Hail | Ripley | - | Relayed via Twitter by KOCO news. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ripley | - | Sporadic structural damage occurred. Two homes sustained roof damage and a trampoline and playground equipment were completely destroyed. Several trees and large tree limbs were also downed. |
| May 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Ripley | - | Tornado was reported by a storm chaser via Spotter Network and by broadcast media. A large revolving bowl wall cloud with debris was noted. No damage was reported. |
| May 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Ripley | - | Tornado was reported by KWTV. No damage was reported. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Ripley | - | This brief tornado was seen by amateur radio spotters touching down in an open field. No damage was reported. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Ripley | - | Thunderstorms in north-central Oklahoma during the late evening hours on the 9th produced hail up to half dollar size. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Ripley | - | Thunderstorms in north-central Oklahoma during the late evening hours on the 9th produced hail up to half dollar size. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Ripley | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Ripley | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Ripley | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Ripley | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Ripley | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Ripley | - | no account filed |
| March 2003 | Hail | Ripley | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Ripley | - | no account filed |
| March 1999 | Hail | Ripley | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Hail | Ripley | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Ripley | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Ripley | - | no account filed |
| October 1993 | Hail | Ripley | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Irvings Castle | 2.3 miles | 1978 | |
 | Jim Thorpe House | 5.7 miles | 1971 |
 | Gillespie Drilling Company Building | 6.4 miles | 2012 |
| Hotel Cushing | 6.6 miles | 2026 | |
| Cushing American Legion Building | 6.8 miles | 2003 | |
 | Luke D. Berry House | 6.9 miles | 2007 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 79002017 in Record Group 79. |
| Payne County | All 33 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.