Adams Woodframe Grain Elevator

Built in 1926. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Adams Woodframe Grain Elevator is a grain elevator in Adams, Oklahoma. The elevator was built in 1926, the same year the community of Adams was established by the Tex-Co Grain Company.”
Wikipedia article Adams Woodframe Grain Elevator, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Texas County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1926.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. N of OK 3, Adams, 73945
When was it listed? May 1983
Category. building
Also known as. Woodframe Grain Elevators of Oklahoma Panhandle TR
Census division. Hooker
When was it built? 1926
National Register reference number. 83002129 - 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 Adams Woodframe Grain Elevator: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown Caliche Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General	Past Producer
Unknown Caliche Pit	Limestone, General	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Texas County

Storms near this property

28 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adams, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 16 hail, 9 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 2006	Tornado (F1)	Adams	$700,000	An official storm damage survey was made by the Texas County Emergency Manager. One hog barn was severely damaged and three homes sustained significant roof damage. Also...two barns and a pickup with a trailor hitched to the pickup were damaged.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Adams	$58,000	Thunderstorm wind damage to three homes which was reported at the intersection of Road 59 and Road M.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Adams	$50,000	The roof of a mobile home was reported to have been taken off. Power lines were reported down along with several barns destroyed.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Adams	$34,000	Report of several power poles blown down and irrigation towers overturned.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Adams	$18,000	Several power poles reported blown down and church windows blown out.
June 2023	Tornado (EFU)	Adams	-	A storm chaser captured a brief tornado touchdown around 2.5 miles south-southeast of Adams. The tornado remained in open country and no damage was reported.
June 2020	Hail	Adams	-	Nickel size hail fell 2 miles west of Adams.
May 2019	Hail	Adams	-	Late report of dime to quarter size hail that fell for a few minutes.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Adams	-	Scattered thunderstorms moved into the central Oklahoma Panhandle around the midnight hour of the 19th. One of the embedded storms quickly intensified near the town of Adams (Texas County). The intensification was short lived and the storm collapsed over the city. The Texas County Emergency Manager reported an estimated 60 mph gust as the storm collapsed. No damage was relayed with this report.
June 2013	Hail	Adams	-	Scattered thunderstorms moved into the central Oklahoma Panhandle around the midnight hour of the 19th. One of the embedded storms quickly intensified near the town of Adams (Texas County). The intensification was short lived and the storm collapsed over the city. The Texas County Emergency Manager reported quarter size hail (1.00 inch) as the storm collapsed. No damage was relayed with this report.
March 2007	Tornado (EF0)	Adams	-	The tornado remained over open country and no damage or injuries were reported. The path length and path width were estimated.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Adams	-	Report of broken windows.
May 1997	Hail	Adams	-	Report of hail covering the ground.
July 2023	Hail	Adams	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Adams	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Adams	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Adams	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Adams	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Adams	-	no account filed
June 2007	Hail	Adams	-	no account filed
March 2007	Hail	Adams	-	no account filed
March 2007	Hail	Adams	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Adams	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Adams	-	no account filed
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Adams	-	no account filed
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Adams	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Adams	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Adams	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Texas 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 83002129 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Texas County	All 17 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.