Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
From the record
“Cities Service Station, at the junction of 1st St. and Central Ave. in Afton, Oklahoma, was built before 1933. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.”
Wikipedia article Cities Service Station (Afton, Oklahoma), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 21 National Register listings published here for Ottawa County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.
Also known as. Route 66 in Oklahoma MPS; Route 66 in Oklahoma MPS
Census division. Afton-Fairland
National Register reference number.95000039- 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
5 since 2010
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Cities Service Station
between 2010 and 2020, burning about 155 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Natural
2
Arson/incendiarism
2
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 Cities Service Station: 4 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Afton, the town this property stands in, in 46 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 22 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 4 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.
This is the second segment of a three segment tornado. In Ottawa County, the tornado moved through open country and then crossed Highway 60 where it threw several round hay bales. It destroyed barns and outbuildings, damaged several homes, and snapped or uprooted numerous trees as it crossed the S 510 Road and S 520 Road. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in this segment of the tornado was 95 to 105 mph. The tornado continued into Delaware County, Oklahoma.
Thunderstorm winds estimated in excess of 60 mile an hour blew off parts of the roof of the Afton elementary school. The winds also blew the roof off several outbuildings.
This tornado developed just north of the Delaware/Ottawa County line, to the west of the S 530 Road. It moved east-northeast uprooting numerous trees and snapping large tree limbs before dissipating after crossing Highway 59. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 90 to 100 mph.
This is the second segment of a two-segment tornado. In Ottawa County, the tornado snapped large tree limbs before dissipating south of Highway 59. It was observed by multiple people. Based on the damage, maximum estimated wind in this segment of the tornado was 75 to 85 mph.
A vehicle was driven into high water from the flooding of Little Horse Creek northeast of Afton, and became stranded. First responders rescued five people from the vehicle.
This is the second segment of a two segment tornado. In Ottawa County, this tornado uprooted trees. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in this segment of the tornado was 90 to 100 mph.
Severe thunderstorms developed in northeast Oklahoma during the early morning of October 7th. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 74 miles an hour at the mesonet automated observing site in Vinita and to 60 miles an hour at Afton. Quarter-size hail fell at Bartlesville, nickel-size hail fell at Lenapah, and dime-size hail fell 2 miles southwest of Bartlesville and 4 miles east of Welch.
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.
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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