Baker Woodframe Grain Elevator

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Baker Woodframe Grain Elevator is a historic grain elevator in Baker, Oklahoma. The wood frame elevator was built in 1926 along the Beaver, Meade and Englewood Railroad by the Riffe & Gilmore Company.”
Wikipedia article Baker Woodframe Grain Elevator, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Texas County · listed in 1983 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off U.S. 64, Baker, 73950
When was it listed? May 1983
Category. building
Also known as. Woodframe Grain Elevators of Oklahoma Panhandle TR
Census division. Hooker
National Register reference number. 83002131 - 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.

Storms near this property

23 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baker, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 10 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 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
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Baker	$20,000	Power poles were snapped along us HWY64, 13 miles east of Hooker. Time of occurrence was estimated by radar data.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Baker	$3,000	A discrete thunderstorm developed over the eastern portion of Texas County during the early evening hours of the 7th. The thunderstorm quickly intensified and slowly moved eastward across the county. A member of the public in the town of Baker (Texas County) reported that a wind gust produced by the thunderstorm caused roof damage to a farm building. After producing this damage the thunderstorm continued a slow eastward track across Texas County before entering Beaver County shortly before 7 PM CST.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Baker	$1,000	A trained spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts downed some oak tree limbs. There were no reports of injuries or fatalities.
June 2024	Flood	Baker	-	Flood water was covering the roads at most intersections with flooding occurring in surrounding fields.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Baker	-	Estimated winds of 70 MPH.
May 2016	Hail	Baker	-	Golf ball size hail occurred near Baker in Texas County, Oklahoma.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Baker	-	Local law enforcement officials reported the thunderstorm wind gusts along with heavy rain reducing the visibility to near zero.
August 2009	Hail	Baker	-	The ground was completely covered in hail ranging from golf ball to tennis ball size.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Baker	-	A trained spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of fifty-six knots.
June 2007	Tornado (EF0)	Baker	-	The tornado developed one mile north northeast of the town of Baker Oklahoma at 2038 CST and then traveled southeast for about two miles before dissipating two miles east southeast of Baker at 2045 CST. The tornado remained over open country and the path length and path width were estimated. No damage or injuries were reported.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Baker	-	Large tree limbs were reported blown down.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Baker	-	Report of broken windows at 2 or 3 homes.
May 1997	Hail	Baker	-	Hail was covering the ground.
August 2012	Hail	Baker	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Baker	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Baker	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Baker	-	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Baker	-	no account filed
March 2007	Hail	Baker	-	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Baker	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Baker	-	no account filed
September 1996	Tornado (F0)	Baker	-	no account filed
September 1996	Tornado (F0)	Baker	-	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.

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
	Baker Woodframe Elevator	under 500 feet	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83002131 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.
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.