Beckham County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Beckham County Courthouse, located in Courthouse Square in Sayre, is the county courthouse of Beckham County, Oklahoma. The courthouse is considered a local landmark because it is the tallest building in Sayre.”
Wikipedia article Beckham County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Beckham 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. Courthouse Sq., Sayre, 73662
When was it listed? August 1984
Category. building
Also known as. County Courthouses of Oklahoma TR
Census division. Sayre
National Register reference number. 84002968 - 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

60 of 102 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sayre, the town this property stands in, in 102 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 61 hail, 27 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 3 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Sayre	1 hurt, $36,000	no account filed
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Sayre	$3,500,000	Signs were blown onto Interstate 40 near exit 26. The west bound lanes had to be closed briefly as a result. Monetary damages were estimated.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Sayre	$50,000	no account filed
May 1993	Tornado (F0)	Sayre	$50,000	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Sayre	$30,000	no account filed
August 1999	Lightning	Sayre	$20,000	Lightning struck a tank battery used for oil and gas storage. The battery was destroyed by fire.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Sayre	$20,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Sayre	$15,500	no account filed
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Sayre	$15,000	Severe thunderstorm winds blew part of the roof off of the Sayre elementary school library. Winds also uprooted large trees and downed at least one utility pole in town. Reports of more minor tree and roof damage were widepsread across Sayre.
June 1997	Lightning	Sayre	$4,000	Lightning struck and set fire to a house, gutting the kitchen.
May 2019	Flash Flood	Sayre	$2,000	Multiple semi trucks and cars stranded in high flood waters over interstate 40. Time of first flooding estimated based on radar.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Sayre	$2,000	Metal roof blown off mobile home at highway 283 and country road east 1240.
October 2001	Tornado (F0)	Sayre	$2,000	A3. Numerous trees were damaged by this tornado.
June 1997	Lightning	Sayre	$2,000	Lightning struck a house, destroying several appliances and blowing holes in the sheetrock and eaves.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Sayre	$1,000	Several large trees uprooted along highway 283 and country road east 1230. Damages estimated.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Sayre	$500	An irrigation system was flipped over by an apparent gustnado.
October 2001	Tornado (F0)	Sayre	$500	A1. This tornado caused minor damage to trees.
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Sayre	$500	Two carports and a fence were damaged.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Sayre	$500	Severe thunderstorm winds blew down a large Texaco sign at the Sayre exit off I-40.
October 2001	Tornado (F0)	Sayre	$100	A4. A few trees were damaged by this tornado.
June 2025	Hail	Sayre	-	The location is approximate.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sayre	-	An estimated wind gust from a broadcast media storm chaser. The location is approximate.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Sayre	-	A measured wind gust near the junction of Interstate 40 and U.S. Highway 283.
May 2024	Hail	Sayre	-	MPing report.
June 2023	Hail	Sayre	-	MPing report.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sayre	-	Semi-trailer flipped along Interstate 40. Time is radar estimated.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sayre	-	Social media image showing a 1224-inch diameter tree snapped halfway up. Time is radar estimated.
May 2020	Hail	Sayre	-	Approximated location.
May 2020	Hail	Sayre	-	Time and location estimate from radar.
April 2020	Hail	Sayre	-	Golf ball sized hail at mile marker 18 on I-40.
May 2019	Flash Flood	Sayre	-	Twitter report with picture. Timber Bean Creek and Coffee Bean Creek both out of their banks at Doxey ok, east of Sayre. Over 3 inches of rainfall in a little over an hour.
May 2019	Flood	Sayre	-	High school football field was covered with standing water.
August 2016	Flood	Sayre	-	Water ran over the roadway on highway 283.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Sayre	-	No damage reported.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Sayre	-	Fire Department estimated gusts to 60 mph.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Sayre	-	Shingles were blown off of a hotel, located of exit 20 on Interstate 40. Monetary damages were estimated.
September 2008	Hail	Sayre	-	The hail was reported on Highway 283.
September 2008	Heavy Rain	Sayre	-	The measured rainfall was 3.98 inches, much of it falling in a six to eight hour period.
September 2003	Flash Flood	Sayre	-	Sayre City Park was flooded.
October 2001	Tornado (F0)	Sayre	-	A2. This tornado formed in an open field with no known damage.
June 2023	Hail	Sayre	-	no account filed
March 2021	Hail	Sayre	-	no account filed
May 2020	Hail	Sayre	-	no account filed
April 2020	Hail	Sayre	-	no account filed
April 2020	Hail	Sayre	-	no account filed
April 2020	Hail	Sayre	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Sayre	-	no account filed
October 2017	Hail	Sayre	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Sayre	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Sayre	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Sayre	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Sayre	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Sayre	-	no account filed
April 2012	Hail	Sayre	-	no account filed
April 2012	Hail	Sayre	-	no account filed
November 2011	Hail	Sayre	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Sayre	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Sayre	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Sayre	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Sayre	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beckham 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

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Sayre Downtown Historic District	0.2 miles	2002
Sayre Rock Island Depot	0.2 miles	2000
Sayre Champlin Service Station	0.3 miles	2004
J.W. Danner House	0.3 miles	2002
Sayre City Park	1.3 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84002968 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Beckham County	All 13 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.