Carmen IOOF Home

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Carmen IOOF Home, also known as or associated with The Carmen Home of Pentecostal Holiness Church, is an Odd Fellows building in Carmen, Oklahoma, built in 1906. It has served historically as institutional housing.”
Wikipedia article Carmen IOOF Home, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Alfalfa County · listed in 1984 · 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. N of Carmen, Carmen, 73726
When was it listed? March 1984
Category. building
Also known as. IOOF Buildings in Alfalfa County TR
Census division. Carmen
National Register reference number. 84002944 - 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

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carmen, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 9 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmen	$100,000	Widespread damage reported in Carmen. Three foot diameter tree limbs down with loss of electricity to most of the town. Damages are estimated.
April 2002	Tornado (F2)	Carmen	$75,000	This tornado is a continuation of the tornado that developed in Major County and moved through Woods County. The tornado tracked for another 15 miles in Alfalfa County before dissipating 2 miles southwest of Ingersoll. As the tornado entered Alfalfa County, damage was sustained to outbuildings, trees and power lines, along State Highway 45 to the west of Carmen. Large trees were uprooted or snapped, and a windmill was destroyed along EW 25 Road to the east of NS 253 Road, or about 4.5 miles southwest of Lambert. Along the west side of NS 255 Road, between EW 23 Road and EW 22 Road (about 2.5 miles west of Lambert), a barn roof was removed as was the west section of the barn. Numerous power poles were snapped along EW 22 Road in a ½ mile area to the east of NS 255 Road. Several high-tension power poles were damaged or destroyed west of NS 256 Road and south of EW 21 Road. Significant tree damage and a couple of destroyed outbuildings were observed at the northeast corner of EW 20 and NS 256 Roads, about 5.5 miles southwest of Cherokee. The tornado continued north-northeast with the last damage observed along EW 17 Road just east of NS 257 Road, 2 miles southwest of Ingersoll, or about 4 miles west-northwest of Cherokee.In total, the tornado persisted for 62 minutes and traveled 34 miles.
October 1998	Tornado (F2)	Carmen	$55,000	no account filed
May 2000	Tornado (F1)	Carmen	$15,000	This tornado, rated F1, touched down about 5 miles east of Carmen about ½ mile south of the intersection of EW29 Road and NS260 Road in Alfalfa County where scattered damage to trees was observed. At the intersection of EW29 Road and NS260 Road, very large limbs, some a foot or more in diameter, were blown off dozens of trees, while numerous other trees were pushed over. There was also damage to an oil storage tank made of metal. A telephone pole at the intersection was recently replaced and is assumed to have been downed during the tornado. A west to east chain link fence approximately 100 to 200 feet long was also downed southward. Major tree damage was then observed at a property about ½ mile northeast of this location with many trees laying in a westward direction. A well-designed brick home near the trees, lost dozens perhaps hundreds of shingles, especially on the west side of the house. About 1 mile northeast of this location another house sustained a broken window on the north side of the house and minor roof damage, consisting mostly of missing roof shingles. Metal siding was partially peeled back from a nearby storage barn, and a medium-aged pine tree on the west side of the house was snapped halfway to the top. Near the intersection of EW27 Road and NS262 Road damage was observed to 2 metal barns. One barn had sheet metal peeled back on the roof and west and east sides. The roof of a storage building was also blown off in an eastward direction and left nearly intact on the ground. About ½ to 1 mile north and east of this location a poorly constructed barn sustained minor roof and west-side wall damage, while another barn constructed of metal had its 2 west-facing doors blown inward and partially detached from its hinges. Continuing northward trees sustained major damage, and a grain storage silo was tossed a short distance eastward from its original location. The last area of damage was observed about ½ mile north of US Highway 64 on NS264 Road where 4 pieces of sheet metal were blown off a storage barn.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmen	$10,000	Multiple power poles with varying degrees of thunderstorm wind damage, including a few that were snapped. Time is radar estimated.
August 1999	Lightning	Carmen	$10,000	no account filed
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmen	$8,000	Six power poles were snapped. Monetary damages were estimated.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmen	$5,000	One foot diameter trees downed. Power poles were also downed.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmen	$5,000	Twelve utility poles were downed.
October 1994	Tornado (F1)	Carmen	$5,000	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmen	$2,500	Power lines were downed across Main Street.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmen	$2,500	Power lines were downed.
April 2026	Hail	Carmen	-	The report was relayed through mPING. The event time was adjusted based on radar observations.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmen	-	No damage reported.
June 2000	Flash Flood	Carmen	-	Highway 8 was closed due to flooding.
May 2019	Hail	Carmen	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Carmen	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Carmen	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Carmen	-	no account filed
August 2015	Hail	Carmen	-	no account filed
September 2010	Hail	Carmen	-	no account filed
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmen	-	no account filed
April 2004	Hail	Carmen	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Carmen	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Alfalfa 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

2 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
	Carmen IOOF Lodge No. 84	1.1 miles	1984
	Aline IOOF Lodge No. 263	5.9 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84002944 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Alfalfa County	All 12 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.