Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
From the record
“Laverne's North Main Street District, in Laverne, Oklahoma, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.”
Wikipedia article Laverne's North Main Street District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 13 National Register listings published here for Harper County · listed in 1984 · category: District.
Also known as. Laverne's Early Commercial Development MRA
Census division. Laverne
National Register reference number.84003044- 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 2017
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Laverne's North Main Street District
in 2017, burning about 69,396 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of Laverne's North Main Street District: 3 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Laverne, the town this property stands in, in 125 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 90 hail, 27 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 3 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.
As a tornado was dissipating north of Laverne, damaging winds from this supercell produced widespread roof, tree and power line damage in Laverne. A number of homes and buildings throughout town suffered roof damage, and multiple power poles were downed in Laverne as well as to the east along State Highway 149.
This tornado developed in Lipscomb County Texas and moved through Beaver and Ellis Counties in Oklahoma before moving into southwestern Harper County. The tornado broke numerous power poles and damaged trees as it moved northeast, crossing US Highway 412/State Highway 3, and dissipated about one mile north of the highway to the southwest of Laverne.
Spotters observed a tornado from a second storm southwest of Laverne. No damage was noted that could be distinguished as independent from the initial tornado in the area, therefore the location of this tornado was estimated.
Numerous downed trees and minor structural damage to some homes and carports occurred. Time of damage estimated from radar. No damage estimated were available.
On the evening of the 25th, thunderstorms developed along a dryline in southwest Oklahoma. One of these storms became severe and produced hail up to three-quarters inch in Harper County.
On the evening of the 25th, thunderstorms developed along a dryline in southwest Oklahoma. One of these storms became severe and produced hail up to three-quarters inch in Harper County.
Severe thunderstorms developed in the Oklahoma panhandle during the late afternoon and evening hours on the 18th and moved eastward into extreme northwest Oklahoma. The storms produced one tornado, hail up to 3.00 inches in diameter and strong winds. The tornado developed 6 miles east-southeast of Elmwood at 1814 CST. The tornado traveled 0.5 miles before dissipating at 1818 CST. This F0 tornado damaged several power poles and broke out some windows. Large hail broke out windows in Hardesty and Bryans Corner.
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
4 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.
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.
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