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One of 11 National Register listings published here for Custer County · listed in 1994 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Weatherford Armory
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 123 W. Rainey St., Weatherford, 73096
- When was it listed? May 1994
- Category. building
- Census division. Weatherford
- National Register reference number. 94000492 - 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
21 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Weatherford Armory between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,615 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2005 | Natural | 9.0 acres | Concho Field Office | AIRPORT RD |
| 3 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | 9.7 acres | Concho Field Office | CUSTER RD |
| 4 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Concho Field Office | BLOWOUT |
| 4 July 2005 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Concho Field Office | CADDO |
| 18 July 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Concho Field Office | MILLER |
| 18 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Concho Field Office | CONTRACTOR |
| 15 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 176 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | CEDAR CANYON FIRE |
| 2 May 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Concho Field Office | WILBURN |
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Weatherford Armory: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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 Gypsum Pit | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
60 of 181 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weatherford, the town this property stands in, in 181 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 108 thunderstorm wind, 57 hail, 8 flash flood, 5 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | 1 hurt, $240,000 | Three semis were overturned on Interstate 40, and one of the drivers was injured. Five thousand square feet of the roof at Walmart was blown off. Numerous homes and businesses had windows broken. A porch was destroyed, and a local fire department recorded a wind gusts of 88 mph, resulting in a broken glass door and roof damage. On the southeast side of Weatherford, road signs and power poles were downed, while on the east side of Weatherford, a trailer was overturned. |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Weatherford | $150,000 | Several streets were closed due to flooding with a number of vehicles stalled in flood waters. Damages estimated. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | $100,000 | Multiple reports and images showing extensive wind damage throughout the community of Weatherford. This includes numerous power poles/lines blown down, large trees snapped/uprooted and windows broken in buildings on the Southwestern Oklahoma State University campus. In addition, a few homes had significant roof damage, including partial or complete removal, on the northeast side of the community. Time is radar estimated. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | $100,000 | The roof of a restaurant was damaged, and significant damage was sustained to the Industrial Park and shopping center. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | $100,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds up to 96 mph (measured by a local firefighter) caused widespread and heavy damage in and around Weatherford. Extensive tree, sign, limb, fence, and window damage was reported. At least 7 power poles were snapped in the Weatherford vicinity.Some of the most severe structural damage occurred at South Western Oklahoma State University, where the roof was blown off of the auditorium. Portions of the auditorium roof landed on and destroyed a police car. The roof was also blown off a campus elevator shaft. Pieces of this second roof landed on and crushed one car and damaged a second vehicle. Elsewhere in town the roof was blown off of a building at an industrial park and the doors were blown in at a salvage yard. The portable bleachers were flipped over a fence and the foul pole was bent 40 degrees at the high school baseball field. Some of the tin on the front of the school cafeteria was also damaged.Just east of town, severe thunderstorm winds caused 4 tractor-trailer trucks to jack-knife and blew another semi-truck over on I-40. The interstate was completely closed for one and a half hours as the trucks were cleared from the highway. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | $90,000 | Sustained severe winds caused widespread damage over parts of Weatherford. Four well constructed roofs were heavily damaged. Four windows were broken out. Three signs sustained damage, with the Best Western sign completely destroyed. Numerous other trees, power lines, and fences were downed. The winds were accompanied by torrential rainfall and penny size hail. Monetary damages were estimated. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | $50,000 | A swath of significant straight-line wind damage was identified across portions of far southeastern Custer County, associated with the rear-flank downdraft of a nearby tornadic thunderstorm. Numerous wooden power poles were snapped, large tree limbs blown down and a metal outbuilding along County Road 990 was destroyed. Both the wind path and time are estimated. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Weatherford | $50,000 | Numerous city roads were closed due to the high water. Several other county roads and bridges also were closed. A few of the bridges received minor damage. The Stafford Air and Space Center received minor damage with as much as 100 gallons of water in several of the rooms. A road was closed three miles southeast of Thomas due to high water. Monetary damages were estimated. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | $30,000 | Damage to ODOT and billboard signs was reported. Six mobile homes lost roofing material. Utility infrastructure sustained significant damage. Time estimated by radar. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | $25,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds downed limbs, trees, fences, and several signs. |
| August 1997 | Lightning | Weatherford | $20,000 | Lightning struck and set fire to the roof of a house, destroying the attic. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Weatherford | $10,000 | Water over roads up to a foot deep in dowtown Weatherford. Several vehicles stranded at I-40 exit at main street. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | $10,000 | A recreation vehicle was blown over by strong winds. The extent of the damage to the vehicle is unknown, and the monetary damage and time are both estimated. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Weatherford | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | $6,000 | A few power lines were downed by high winds. Monetary damages were estimated. |
| June 2023 | Flash Flood | Weatherford | $5,000 | Social media video showing 1-3 feet of flowing water across the road near the intersection of West Rainey Street and West Main Street. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | $5,000 | Social media image showing large tree limbs and powerlines blown down and a telephone pole snapped. Time is radar estimated. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | $5,000 | Kwtv channel 9 spotter reported a tractor trailer blown over on I-40 near Weatherford. Time estimated by radar. |
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | $5,000 | A barn was destroyed on Highway 54. |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | $3,000 | Three power poles downed by strong winds. Time estimated from radar. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | $2,000 | Carport collapsed. Time estimate based on other nearby reports. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | $2,000 | Six inch tree branches and fences were downed. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | $1,000 | Small antenna tower snapped was snapped in half. Time estimated by radar. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | $1,000 | Carport pulled down by strong winds. Time estimated from radar. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | $1,000 | Power lines downed by strong winds. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | $1,000 | Large tree branches snapped along with minor structural damage to a residential playground and fence. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | $1,000 | Large tree branches were reported down. |
| June 1999 | Lightning | Weatherford | $500 | Lightning struck the roof of a house creating a large hole. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | - | Weatherford (WEAT) Mesonet observation. Severe (>50-knot) wind gusts occurred during the event time, with the peak wind gust of 51 knots occurring at 2150 LST. This event was caused by a probable heat burst. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | - | Weatherford (WEAT) Mesonet. This event was caused by a probable heat burst. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | - | Weatherford (WEAT) Mesonet observation. This event was caused by a probable heat burst. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | - | Weatherford (WEAT) Mesonet observation. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Weatherford | - | The report was relayed through mPING. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Weatherford | - | MPing report. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Weatherford | - | MPing report. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Weatherford | - | The report was relayed through mPING. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Weatherford | - | MPing report. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Weatherford | - | MPing report. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | - | Weatherford (WEAT) Mesonet observation. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Weatherford | - | Satellite imagery indicated a narrow damage path in a farm field north of Weatherford. A storm chaser observed this tornado northeast of Weatherford doing damage along E 1000 Road where tree and power pole damage was observed. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Weatherford | - | MPing report. |
| October 2023 | Hail | Weatherford | - | MPing report. |
| July 2023 | Flash Flood | Weatherford | - | Social media video showing water flowing across the road near the intersection of N 2420 Road and E 960 Road. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | - | Estimated wind gust. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Weatherford | - | MPing report. |
| June 2022 | Flood | Weatherford | - | Cropland and road flooding. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | - | Estimated severe wind gust. |
| March 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | - | Oklahoma Mesonet station 4 miles west-southwest of Weatherford. Winds from the north-northwest. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Weatherford | - | Report through MPing. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | - | Power flashes reported on south side of town. |
| August 2018 | Flash Flood | Weatherford | - | Water flowing over city and secondary streets. At least one vehicle stalled in flood waters. |
| May 2017 | Tornado (EFU) | Weatherford | - | The Weatherford Fire Department confirmed a tornado about 2 miles southeast of Weatherford. No damage was reported. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Weatherford | - | Reported via mping. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Weatherford | - | This report was relayed from Twitter. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weatherford | - | No damage reported. |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Weatherford | - | Roads were flooded. |
| May 2015 | Hail | Weatherford | - | No damage reported. Time estimated from radar. |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owl Blacksmith Shop | under 500 feet | 1983 | |
 | Science Building | 0.7 miles | 1984 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 94000492 in Record Group 79. |
| Custer County | All 11 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.