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Comanche, Oklahoma

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Comanche census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73529. The Survey maps it on the Comanche quadrangle. 1,378 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 988 feet above sea level.

Comanche within Stephens County

Population over time

2 figures

Comanche fell from 1,663 to 1,378 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,663
20201,378-285 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Comanche between 1994 and 2008, burning about 1,501 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
22 March 1994Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresChickasaw National Recreation AreaBEST
13 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined94 acresChickasaw AgencyCOMANCHE
9 February 2008Equipment and vehicle use14 acresChickasaw AgencyRHINO SPARK
10 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined491 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryCOMANCHE
10 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined900 acresOklahoma Division of ForestryOLIVER ROAD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stephens County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Comanche: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Stephens County

Storms near this place

60 of 89 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Comanche in 89 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 44 hail, 30 thunderstorm wind, 11 flash flood, 2 lightning. The reports record 6 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2024Tornado (EF3)Comanche6 hurt, $5,000,000This tornado developed near US Highway 81 and the Jefferson County line south of Comanche and moved northeast for nearly 22 miles. At least two dozen buildings were damaged by the tornado including a number of homes that were destroyed. Hundreds of trees were reported downed along the path as well as numerous power lines and power poles. Numerous large trees were destroyed and debarked at the tornado moved over the Comanche Golf Course and Comanche Lake to the east of the town of Comanche with the tree damage significant enough for an EF3 rating. After crossing Comanche Lake, the tornado continued northeast crossing State Highway 7 between Duncan and Velma, and dissipating a few miles southwest of Lake Fuqua.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindComanche$50,000A large tree, approximately three to four feet in diameter, was blown down and landed on a house. Event time is estimated from radar observations.
June 2023Tornado (EF1)Comanche$30,000A spotter reported observing a tornado that moved into the southwestern portion of Comanche. Trees were downed and an outbuilding damaged just southwest of Comanche, then damaged an apartment building in southwest Comanche.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindComanche$30,000At least one home had significant roof damage in Comanche.
October 2000Flash FloodComanche$30,000A bridge was washed out.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindComanche$25,000Severe winds estimated at 75 to 80 mph caused widespread tree, limb, and structural damage in Comanche. Significant damage occurred at the high school gymnasium, where a large window was blown in and northeast portions of the roof were torn off. Damage to the gym was assessed at $22,600. At a city park, the fuel tanks were ripped from a plane on permanent display, and in downtown the siding was torn from a warehouse building. Carports and large trees also suffered major damage throughout town.
August 2003LightningComanche$20,000Lightning caused a house fire.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindComanche$10,000Powerlines blown down along portions of Oklahoma Highway 53. Event time is estimated from radar observations.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindComanche$10,000Power poles and several lines were blown down. Monetary damages were estimated.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindComanche$10,000An office building was destroyed at Miller Construction Company.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindComanche$10,000no account filed
March 2000Thunderstorm WindComanche$6,000A barn was destroyed, and a car was damaged by flying debris.
June 2017Flash FloodComanche$5,000Some homes were surrounded by water and a vehicle was stalled on highway 81.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindComanche$5,000The Hop & Sack sign was blown down. Monetary damages were estimated.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindComanche$5,000Eight power poles were downed.
May 1995HailComanche$5,000no account filed
October 2002Thunderstorm WindComanche$3,000Swings and trampolines were blown over. Large tree limbs were downed, and an antenna was snapped.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindComanche$3,000A barn was destroyed, and damage was sustained to the roof of a house.
October 1999LightningComanche$3,000Lightning struck the Comanche Water Tower, resulting in damage to monitoring equipment. Lightning also struck a transformer at the Comanche substation, resulting in loss of power throughout town.
October 2002Thunderstorm WindComanche$2,500Two utility poles were snapped, and a tree was blown over.
November 2024Thunderstorm WindComanche$2,000A public image submitted to the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management shows large tree limbs blown down. Event time is radar-estimated.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindComanche$1,000Numerous trees were downed on county roads.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindComanche$100Trees were blown down across a roadway.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindComanche$50Several four inch diameter limbs were downed.
April 2026HailComanche-The report was relayed through mPING.
April 2026HailComanche-The report was relayed through mPING.
April 2025Flash FloodComanche-Images courtesy of The Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management show significant water rise across the road at multiple locations, from Oklahoma State Highway 53 to County Road 1860, due to flooding along Dry Creek. Event time is approximate, and residual flooding may have continued beyond the end of this event.
June 2023HailComanche-MPing report.
October 2023Flash FloodComanche-Report of a car stalled in floodwaters along U.S. Highway 81 near the community of Comanche.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindComanche-Storm chasers observed what appeared to be a gustnado near US-81 north of Comanche.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindComanche-Trees bent over.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindComanche-Powerlines downed. Time radar estimated.
April 2020HailComanche-Reported from Mping.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindComanche-No damage reported.
May 2015HailComanche-No damage reported.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindComanche-Thirty inch tree downed and blocking old highway 81.
April 2009Flash FloodComanche-Two bridges between Comanche and Loco were under water. Several county roads were also underwater and impassable.
March 2007Flash FloodComanche-Rainfall totals of 3 to 6 inches fell over south central Oklahoma during the morning and afternoon of March 30 and generated flash flooding across the region. At 1345 CST, a spotter reported flash flooding in the city of Comanche.
June 2007Flash FloodComanche-Old US HWY 81 was impassable due to high water.
June 2004Flash FloodComanche-In Stephens County, heavy rains caused street flooding in Comanche, OK at 5:17 am CDT.
May 2003HailComanche-Hail was reported covering the ground 3 miles south of Highway 7 on Comanche Lake Road.
May 2003HailComanche-Hail was observed covering the ground at Comanche Lake.
October 2000Flash FloodComanche-Highway 81 was under water.
June 1997Flash FloodComanche-Highway 81 from Comanche south to the Jefferson county line was closed due to high water.
June 1997Flash FloodComanche-Highway 81 was closed due to the high water.
April 1995HailComanche-Early afternoon thunderstorms in southern Oklahoma produced hail as large as quarters in Comanche in Stephens County.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindComanche-Thunderstorms developed in west-central Oklahoma during the evening hours on the 6th and moved into portions of southern Oklahoma. These storms produced a tornado, hail up to two inches in diameter, damaging winds, damaging lightning, and flash flooding rains. A tornado developed at 2029 CST five miles north-northwest of Foss and moved south-southeast five and one-half miles before dissipating one-half mile south of Foss. This F1 tornado tore a section of the roof off an abandoned gas station, blew a pickup from a parking lot in a truck stop onto Interstate 40, overturned four cars and four tractor-semitrailers on Interstate 40 closing both directions of travel for several hours, destroyed a mobile home, damaged an antenna, the roof of a hay barn, a flagpole, a travel trailer and the roofs of homes, blew the windows out of a restaurant, tore a section of a roof off a boat storage building, damaged or destroyed several signs, uprooted trees, and broke off tree limbs. Two people received minor injuries when the vehicle they were in was overturned on Interstate 40. Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs in Comanche and nine miles east of Walters, downed a large tree in Temple, knocked over a fence in Grandfield, ripped a roof off a building at a plant farm three miles southeast of Temple, and overturned an uninhabited mobile home five and one-half miles west-southwest of Comanche. Hail up to half-dollar-size damaged automobiles in Arapaho. Hail up to golf ball-size damaged automobiles in Canute. A lightning strike nine miles south of Butler damaged several television sets. Lightning struck a house in Arapaho resulting in minor damage. Heavy rainfall resulted in water from Beaver Creek over a road one mile east of Arapaho.
December 2021HailComanche-no account filed
August 2020HailComanche-no account filed
May 2019HailComanche-no account filed
May 2019HailComanche-no account filed
March 2018HailComanche-no account filed
April 2017HailComanche-no account filed
May 2016HailComanche-no account filed
May 2016HailComanche-no account filed
May 2016HailComanche-no account filed
May 2015HailComanche-no account filed
May 2015HailComanche-no account filed
October 2011HailComanche-no account filed
June 2011HailComanche-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stephens County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Sunray3.0 miles15
Meridian4.1 miles15
Empire City4.9 miles10
Liberty5.5 miles15
Corum7.4 miles10
Oklahoma Hills8.0 miles15
Dixie Park8.2 miles15
Gas City8.6 miles10

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on ComancheAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2361094The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1091585. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.