Knowles Grain Elevator

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Beaver County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. U.S. 64, Knowles, 73844
When was it listed? May 1983
Category. building
Also known as. Woodframe Grain Elevators of Oklahoma Panhandle TR
Census division. North Beaver
National Register reference number. 83002069 - 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Knowles Grain Elevator: 1 producer, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unknown Caliche Pit	Limestone, General	Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Beaver County

Storms near this property

36 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Knowles, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 28 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 2025	Hail	Knowles	$3,000	no account filed
July 2025	Hail	Knowles	-	Hail fell on both sides of Knowles. The west side of town had up to nickel size hail while the east side of town observed hail up to quarter size.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Knowles	-	Four to five inch tree limbs were blown down as well as corn stalks blown completely over.
August 2020	Flood	Knowles	-	Bar ditches flooded and standing water in low lying areas.
June 2014	Flash Flood	Knowles	-	A slow moving supercell produced a prolonged period of heavy rain over northern Beaver County near the town of Knowles (Beaver County). This heavy rain led to flash flooding 2 miles south of town. The Woodward News reported a county road south of the town of Knowles (Beaver County) was completely washed out. These flood waters receded quickly once storms moved away from the area around 7 PM.
May 2014	Hail	Knowles	-	A discrete supercell developed over the eastern Oklahoma Panhandle during the afternoon hours of the 11th. This storm strengthened as it moved northeastward along a dryline. As the storm approached the town of Knowles (Beaver County), a member of the public reported quarter size hail (1.00 inches) in Knowles. This storm continued to move to the northeast after producing this hail.
June 2014	Hail	Knowles	-	A slow moving supercell developed over northern Beaver County during the afternoon hours of the 22nd. As the supercell moved over of the town of Knowles (Beaver County), the Woodward News reported hail up to the size of golf balls (1.75 inches). After producing this hail the supercell continued slowly moving to the south across the county.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Knowles	-	A slow moving supercell developed over northern Beaver County during the afternoon hours of the 22nd. As the supercell moved east of the town of Knowles, the Beaver County Emergency Manager reported an estimated 65 mph downburst blew down five telephone poles 1 mile east of Knowles (Beaver County). After producing this damage the supercell continued slowly moving to the south across the county.
June 2014	Flash Flood	Knowles	-	A slow moving supercell produced a prolonged period of heavy rain over northern Beaver County near the town of Knowles (Beaver County). This heavy rain led to flash flooding 2 miles south of town. The Emergency Manager reported the flash flooding was covering the county roads south of town. These flood waters receded quickly once storms moved away from the area around 7 PM.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Knowles	-	The Beaver County Emergency Manager estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of sixty-one knots.
May 2008	Hail	Knowles	-	Report of baseball size hail relayed via the Beaver County Emergency Management.
May 2008	Hail	Knowles	-	Reported near the Clear Lake area.
May 2008	Hail	Knowles	-	Reported near the Clear Lake area.
June 2008	Hail	Knowles	-	Trained spotter reported that the hail was covering the ground.
June 2024	Hail	Knowles	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Knowles	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Knowles	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Knowles	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Knowles	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Knowles	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Knowles	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Knowles	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Knowles	-	no account filed
February 2007	Hail	Knowles	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Knowles	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Knowles	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Knowles	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Knowles	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Knowles	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Knowles	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Knowles	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Knowles	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Knowles	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Knowles	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Knowles	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Knowles	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beaver 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Gate School	7.6 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83002069 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Beaver County	All 7 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.