R. E. Hoy No. 1 Oil Well

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Garfield County · listed in 1986 · category: Site.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Hoy, R. E., No. 1 Oil Well - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off US 64, Covington, 73730
When was it listed? September 1986
Category. site
Census division. South Garfield
National Register reference number. 86002357 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of R. E. Hoy No. 1 Oil Well: 3 past producers. None of them 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Garfield County

Storms near this property

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Covington, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 22 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 1999	Tornado (F2)	Covington	$25,000	Tornado H4 (Garfield County portion). See summary at end of May 3rd storm reports.
April 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	$5,000	A couple of power lines and one pole was blown down near Highway 74. Monetary damages were estimated.
May 2025	Hail	Covington	-	An image was relayed by emergency management.
March 2009	Hail	Covington	-	Reports of dime to nickel size hail were relayed by the county EM.
July 2004	Hail	Covington	-	Hail was reported by KWTV Channel 9.
April 2026	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed
September 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	-	no account filed
September 1999	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed
August 1999	Flash Flood	Covington	-	no account filed
September 1999	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed
September 1998	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed
April 1997	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed
April 1996	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	-	no account filed
April 1994	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed
April 1994	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Covington	-	no account filed
October 1994	Hail	Covington	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Garfield 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
	Kimmell Barn	1.9 miles	1984
	Covington Jail	3.7 miles	2024

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86002357 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Garfield County	All 36 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.
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.