Adams is in eastern Texas County in the Oklahoma Panhandle. Texas County is one of three counties between the Texas Panhandle and Kansas.
At one time, the Republic of Texas laid claim on what is now the Oklahoma Panhandle, as well as quite a bit of New Mexico and a big chunk of Colorado. The Rio Grande begins in Colorado, and the Republic of Texas figured since the big river was the southern border between Texas and Mexico, it might as well be the western and northwestern border as well. The Republic gave up that claim when the United States agreed to pay all the government’s bills if Texas would enter the Union.
The grain elevator was built in 1926. It is made of wood and sheet metal. At 25 feet square and 70 feet high, the elevator is a big wooden structure.
“In 2017, a news story reported that the old grain elevator has developed a noticeable lean toward the north, because of the prairie wind. Apparently this has occurred since the 1980s, when the Rock Island removed its track and a grain truck fell through the elevator floor. The structure is officially condemned as of 2017.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams_Woodframe_Grain_Elevator
And https://kfor.com/2017/08/16/oklahomas-leaning-tower-the-old-adams-grain-elevator-is-in-a-gravity-defying-slow-motion-fall/
Adams’ population in 2000 was 182.
Overall, Texas County has five wooden grain elevators on the National Register of Historical Places.
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