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One of 19 National Register listings published here for Rogers County · listed in 1999 · category: Building · built in 1907.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Beck, I.W.W., Building
Built in 1907. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 146 W. Cooweescoowee Ave., Oologah, 74053
- When was it listed? September 1999
- Category. building
- Census division. Oologah-Talala
- When was it built? 1907
- National Register reference number. 99001086 - 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
2 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Beck, I.W.W., Building between 2000 and 2017, burning about 2,238 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 | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,600 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | TALALA |
| 16 February 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 638 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 360 FIRE |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Beck, I.W.W., Building: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Limestone Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
60 of 75 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oologah, the town this property stands in, in 75 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 36 thunderstorm wind, 34 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 5 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | 5 hurt, $100,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour damaged 15 to 20 mobile homes. Two mobile homes were destroyed. Five people were injured. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | $250,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour caused severe damage to trees, power poles and structures in and around Oologah. Some of the power poles blown down were on the northern periphery of American Electric Power Plant grounds. This caused a widespread power outage which also effected the local water plant. Two sections of the cooling tower of the power plant were also directly damaged by the wind. |
| May 2009 | Flash Flood | Oologah | $100,000 | Heavy rain caused widespread flash flooding across Rogers County. As many as 40 county roads were closed due to flooding. Highway 88 near Inola was flooded as well. City streets in Claremore were flooded and the flood waters approached homes and businesses. Homes in Verdigris were also flooded. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | $25,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a large transmission tower at the PSO plant. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | $15,000 | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree onto a truck on the south end of Oologah Lake. |
| August 2017 | Tornado (EF1) | Oologah | $15,000 | This tornado developed east of Oologah where barns and trees were damaged. The tornado moved northward along the S 4110 Road where power poles were snapped, a home was damaged, and trees were blown down. The tornado turned more northwesterly after crossing the E 370 Road and dissipated south of the E 350 Road. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 90 to 100 mph. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour produced damage just west of Oologah. A 20-foot pull-behind trailer was rolled 200 yards. Bricks on a home were damaged and some trees and large tree limbs were blown down. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated in excess of 70 miles an hour blew down trees and power lines. |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew a tin roof off a mobile home. |
| October 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | $10,000 | An abandoned mobile home was flipped over. Note: The mobile home was not tied down. |
| September 2009 | Hail | Oologah | $6,000 | Hail up to golfball size damaged at least two vehicles. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Oologah | $5,000 | no account filed |
| November 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | $3,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down a few power lines near Oolagah causing a power outage in the area. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | $500 | Several trees were blown down north of Oologah. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | $100 | Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs. |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | $100 | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured to 60 mph. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured to 60 mph. |
| November 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Oologah | - | This is the first segment of a two-segment tornado. The tornado developed just east of the Washington/Rogers County line, near the E 350 Road, where a couple trees were blown down. It moved northeast over open country before impacting the Talala Oklahoma Mesonet station, which is located just west of the S 4080 Road and south of the E 300 Road. The mesonet instruments measured 94 mph wind gusts. The tornado crossed the S 4080 Road, uprooting trees, and then crossed into Nowata County west of the S 4100 Road. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in this segment of the tornado was 90 to 100 mph. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | - | Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to 75 mph. |
| October 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to 65 mph. |
| October 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to 70 mph. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph near the S 4060 Road and E 410 Road southwest of Oologah. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a tree. |
| April 2017 | Flash Flood | Oologah | - | The E 380 Road was flooded east of Highway 169, where a creek overflowed the bridge. |
| April 2017 | Flash Flood | Oologah | - | Portions of the E 380 Road were flooded east of Highway 169. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down numerous large tree limbs. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew a tree and several large tree limbs down. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew a tree down. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down a tree. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down several trees. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oologah | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down several trees. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Oologah | - | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Hail | Oologah | - | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Hail | Oologah | - | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Hail | Oologah | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Oologah | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Oologah | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Oologah | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Oologah | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Oologah | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Oologah | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Oologah | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Oologah | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Oologah | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Oologah | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Oologah | - | no account filed |
| November 2005 | Hail | Oologah | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Oologah | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Oologah | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Oologah | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Oologah | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Oologah | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Oologah | - | no account filed |
| December 1999 | Hail | Oologah | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Oologah | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Oologah | - | no account filed |
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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Oologah Pump | under 500 feet | 1982 |
 | Oologah Bank | under 500 feet | 1982 |
 | Will Rogers Birthplace | 3.3 miles | 1970 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 99001086 in Record Group 79. |
| Rogers County | All 19 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.