Gate School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Gate School is the historic former school in Gate, Oklahoma. The yellow brick building was constructed by the Works Progress Administration from 1937 to 1938.”
Wikipedia article Gate School (Gate, Oklahoma), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Beaver County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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 2 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of 4th and Texas, Gate, 73844
When was it listed? September 1999
Category. building
Census division. North Beaver
National Register reference number. 99001087 - 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

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Gate School: 3 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice. 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
Beaver Pit #1	Pumice	Producer
Unknown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Caliche Pit	Limestone, General	Unknown
Unknown Caliche Pit	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Unknown Caliche Pit	Limestone, General	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Beaver County

Storms near this property

34 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gate, the town this property stands in, in 34 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 26 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 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Gate	$100,000	A tremendous amount of tree damage and structural damage...including roofs blown off of barns and sheds. Roof damage was reported on several houses and tin walls and roofs blown off of several buildings.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Gate	$28,000	Irrigation pivots were blown over and tree damage occurred in Gate.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Gate	$20,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts...estimated between fifty-two knots and sixty-one knots...knocked over an irrigation pivot and also some large tree limbs were blown down. No injuries were reported. The time of occurrence was estimated.
October 2000	Flash Flood	Gate	$8,000	Flooding of ranchland and farmland along with water into a couple of homes was reported.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Gate	$3,000	A discrete thunderstorm moved across the eastern Oklahoma Panhandle during the late night hours of the 27th. As this thunderstorm neared the city of Gate (Beaver County), the core of the storm descended and produced a downburst. The wind gust produced by this downburst blew oil field tanks several feet onto a county road as reported by the Beaver County Fire Department. The thunderstorm continued to move to the northeast after producing this downburst.
June 2023	Tornado (EF0)	Gate	$2,000	This tornado developed just inside the Beaver-Harper county line. It caused some roof damage and tree damage to a home before crossing into Harper County.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Gate	-	A metal roof blown off a building. Damage to some out buildings and a broken power pole with lines down.
May 2008	Hail	Gate	-	Quarter to half dollar size hail was reported to be covering the ground.
April 2005	Hail	Gate	-	Associated with a second severe storms which moved over the area.
March 1995	Hail	Gate	-	Hail in eastern Beaver County reported by cooperative observer and spotters with Beaver County emergency management team.
June 1995	Hail	Gate	-	The Oklahoma Highway Patrol and VORTEX storm chasers reported the hail. Most of the damage occurred to vehicles caught on the road with a few buildings receiving roof damaged as well.
August 2020	Hail	Gate	-	no account filed
June 2016	Hail	Gate	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Gate	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Gate	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Gate	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Gate	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Gate	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Gate	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Gate	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Gate	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Gate	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Gate	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Gate	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Gate	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Gate	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Gate	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Gate	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Gate	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Gate	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Gate	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Gate	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Gate	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Gate	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beaver 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

1 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
	Knowles Grain Elevator	7.6 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001087 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Beaver County	All 7 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.