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One of 17 National Register listings published here for Texas County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Optima Grain Elevator
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. U.S. 54, Optima, 73945
- When was it listed? May 1983
- Category. building
- Also known as. Woodframe Grain Elevators of Oklahoma Panhandle TR
- Census division. Guymon
- National Register reference number. 83002136 - 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 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Optima Grain Elevator in 2018, burning about 560 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 560 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | BEASLEY RANCH |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 11 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Optima Grain Elevator: 9 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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 Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Unknown Caliche Pit | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Caliche Pit | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Caliche Pit | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Caliche Pit | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Caliche Pit | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Caliche Pit | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Caliche Pit | Limestone, General | Producer |
Storms near this property
30 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Optima, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 21 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash 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 1994 | Hail | Optima | $50,000 | Severe thunderstorms rolled through the Oklahoma panhandle bringing strong winds and hail up to baseball-size. Numerous automobile windows were broken and the roofs of many homes sustained serious damage. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Optima | $50,000 | Severe thunderstorms rolled through the Oklahoma panhandle bringing strong winds and hail up to baseball size. Numerous automobile windows were broken and the roofs of many homes sustained serious damage. |
| May 1993 | Tornado (F3) | Optima | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Optima | $20,000 | Metal grain bins damaged. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Optima | $20,000 | No injuries were reported from the tornado. The path length and path width were estimated. The tornado destroyed a poorly constructed home plus two other homes sustained minor damage. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Optima | $10,000 | Two 18 wheeler trucks were blown over between Optima and Hooker. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Optima | $7,000 | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Optima | - | A storage shed was blown over onto an adjacent house. Several homes had roof damage. There was also trampolines and dumpsters blown over. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Optima | - | Several power poles leaning over near mile 38 and road M north of Optima. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Optima | - | Late report of golf ball size hail, time estimated from radar. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Optima | - | Late report from a trained spotter. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Optima | - | Late report thunderstorm wind gust. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Optima | - | Quarter size hail was reported in Optima. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Optima | - | Nickel size hail was reported 2 miles southwest of Optima. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Optima | - | A cluster of thunderstorms moved out of southeastern Colorado and southwestern Kansas and into the Oklahoma Panhandle during the evening hours of the 30th. As this cluster of thunderstorms moved over the town of Optima (Texas County), the Emergency Manager 7 miles north of Optima (Texas County) half dollar size hail (1.25 inches). After producing this hail the cluster of thunderstorms continued to move to the southeast. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Optima | - | Scattered thunderstorms developed over Texas County during the evening hours of the 21st. As the storms moved over the town of Optima (Texas County), a member of the public reported ping pong ball size hail (1.50 inches). After producing this hail the storms moved southeastward across the county. |
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | Optima | - | Thunderstorms moved over the town of Optima (Texas County) during the evening hours of the 21st. These storms produced intense rainfall which led to the development of flash flooding on several roads in town as reported by the Emergency Manager. Once the storms moved east of town the flood waters receded. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Optima | - | The thunderstorm produced golf ball to tennis ball size hail. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Optima | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Optima | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Optima | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Optima | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Optima | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Optima | - | no account filed |
| October 2021 | Hail | Optima | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Optima | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Optima | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Optima | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Optima | - | no account filed |
| September 1994 | Hail | Optima | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 83002136 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.
- 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.