Vega Motel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

One of 1 National Register listings published here for Oldham County · listed in 2006 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1005 Vega Blvd., Vega, 79079
When was it listed? October 2006
Category. building
Also known as. Route 66 in Texas MPS
National Register reference number. 06000926 - 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.

Storms near this property

60 of 117 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vega, the town this property stands in, in 117 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 75 hail, 33 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 3 flash flood. 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
June 1994	Hail	Vega	$50,000	no account filed
July 2002	Flash Flood	Vega	$45,000	Numerous cars were stranded in high water in the town of Vega.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Vega	$30,000	Five inch tree limbs reported broken and shingles blown off of roofs of homes in Vega.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Vega	$25,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts caused damage to the roof of a gas station and also overturned a tractor trailer. There were no reports of injuries or fatalities.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Vega	$16,000	Multiple tractor trailers were flipped at mile marker 35 on Interstate-40.
June 2025	Hail	Vega	$10,000	Hail dented cars as well as some windows were knocked out of a house.
June 1999	Hail	Vega	$10,000	no account filed
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Vega	$8,000	A tractor trailer was flipped on Interstate-40 at mile marker 42.
June 1994	Hail	Vega	$5,000	no account filed
June 2025	Hail	Vega	$4,000	Hail fell around Vega. Most of the hailstones were quarter size but a few were up to golfball size.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Vega	$2,000	A large tree was blown down in the front yard of a residence. Multiple trees were blown down in the area.
August 2008	Hail	Vega	$2,000	A truck driver reported that the windshield of his rig was broken from the large hail and the damage occurred near mile marker thirty-five on Interstate 40. No injuries were reported.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Vega	-	Severe wind gusts occurred for three minutes with the strongest being 65mph at 821pm CDT.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Vega	-	From the station located near Vega, TX.
June 2020	Hail	Vega	-	Very large hail fell up to 3.25 inches in diameter 3 miles east-southeast of Vega.
June 2020	Hail	Vega	-	Half dollar size hail fell in Vega.
June 2020	Hail	Vega	-	Golf ball size hail fell 4 miles east-southeast of Vega. The time of occurrence has been estimated from radar data.
June 2020	Hail	Vega	-	Tennis ball size hail fell 2 miles east of Vega.
June 2020	Hail	Vega	-	Hen egg size hail fell 5 miles west of Wildorado.
June 2019	Flood	Vega	-	Nuisance street flooding occurred in and around Vega.
July 2019	Hail	Vega	-	A spotter network report was received for quarter sized hail approximately 10 miles south of Boys Ranch along US Highway 385. There were also a few hailstones larger than 1.00 inch in diameter.
April 2019	Hail	Vega	-	Late report of ping pong ball size hail on Highway 385 north of Vega.
March 2019	Tornado (EFU)	Vega	-	No damage observed. Track and times estimated based on three separate videos and pictures.
May 2019	Hail	Vega	-	Late report of ping pong ball hail on I-40.
May 2019	Hail	Vega	-	Golf ball size hail reported west of Vega on I-40.
May 2019	Hail	Vega	-	Late report of Ping Pong ball hail on I-40.
May 2019	Hail	Vega	-	Sheriff reported half dollar sized hail.
May 2019	Tornado (EF0)	Vega	-	Late report of tornado touchdown, with power flashes noted by chaser on Tascosa Road looking back towards Vega wind farm.
June 2018	Hail	Vega	-	Mostly dime to nickel size with a few larger than quarters.
June 2018	Hail	Vega	-	Sheriffs office reports hail.
March 2017	Hail	Vega	-	Reporting quarter hail 3 miles east of Vega on I-40. Hail now shifting north of highway.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Vega	-	Late report from Oldham County Emergency Manager with damage to RVs and carports and about 20 downed power lines in Vega.
April 2016	Hail	Vega	-	Dime size hail was reported one mile southwest of Vega.
October 2015	Flash Flood	Vega	-	Heavy rain from thunderstorms resulted in flooding in Vega during the late evening of the 21st through the early morning hours of the 22nd. Water invaded 11 homes in Vega and some streets were flooded, including Highway 385.
July 2015	Hail	Vega	-	Two inch diameter hail was reported 2 miles north of Vega.
July 2014	Hail	Vega	-	A line of thunderstorms moved across Oldham County during the late evening hours of the 16th. As the line moved near the town of Vega (Oldham County), a local law enforcement officer 6 miles northeast of Vega (Oldham County) reported golf ball size hail (1.75 inches). After producing this hail, the line of thunderstorms continued to move to the south-southeast across the Texas Panhandle.
May 2013	Hail	Vega	-	A supercell thunderstorm that developed along a retreating dryline in Deaf Smith and Oldham Counties tracked to the northeast across the southern Texas Panhandle. A Vega (Deaf Smith County) Police Officer reported nickle size hail 3 miles south of Vega. The supercell continued traveling in a northeastern direction which took it out of the county shortly after 10 pm. No injuries were relayed with this report.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Vega	-	A storm chaser estimated the thunderstorm wind gusts in Vega Texas in Oldham County. No damage or injuries were reported.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Vega	-	A storm chaser estimated the thunderstorm wind gusts about one mile east of Vega Texas in Oldham County. There were no reports of damage or injuries.
June 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Vega	-	A tornado touched down about one mile west of Vega around 1708 CST and tracked east northeast for about one mile where it lifted around 1711 CST about one half of a mile north northwest of Vega. The tornado remained over open country and no damage or injuries were reported.
June 2003	Flash Flood	Vega	-	Water was reported over the road on the Frontage Road on the north side of Interstate 40 between Vega and Adrian. Also...a truck driver reported eight to nine inches of water on U.S. Highway 385 four miles south of Vega for a length of a hundred and sixty feet.
May 1994	Hail	Vega	-	Severe thunderstorms over the western Texas panhandle produced numerous hail reports with sizes ranging up to golf balls. Skywarn spotters along with sheriff offices and fire departments provided excellent real time reports during this severe weather outbreak. The larger hail occurred over native pasture land with no damage reported.
May 1994	Hail	Vega	-	Severe thunderstorms over the western Texas panhandle produced numerous hail reports with sizes ranging up to golf balls. Skywarn spotters along with sheriff offices and fire departments provided excellent real time reports during this severe weather outbreak. The larger hail occurred over native pasture land with no damage reported.
September 1993	Hail	Vega	-	Isolated storm produced 1.00-inch hail, reported by SkyWarn spotter.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Vega	-	no account filed
May 2023	Hail	Vega	-	no account filed
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Vega	-	no account filed
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Vega	-	no account filed
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Vega	-	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Vega	-	no account filed
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Vega	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Vega	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Vega	-	no account filed
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Vega	-	no account filed
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Vega	-	no account filed
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Vega	-	no account filed
May 2021	Hail	Vega	-	no account filed
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Vega	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Vega	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Vega	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oldham 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000926 in Record Group 79.
Oldham County	All 1 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.
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.