Lawton, Oklahoma

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 17 shown

• Mattie Beal Houselisted 1975
• Carnegie Librarylisted 1976
• Central Fire Stationlisted 2016
• Douglass Schoollisted 2008
• Federal Building and US Courthouselisted 2000
• First Christian Churchlisted 1985
• First Presbyterian Church of Lawtonlisted 1979
• Lawton National Guard Armorylisted 2007
• Mahoney-Clark Houselisted 1982
• Methodist Episcopal Church, Southlisted 1985
• Old Tower Twolisted 1974
• Building 309, Fort Sill Indian Schoollisted 1973

Every listing in Comanche County

Lawton fell from 96,867 to 90,381 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.

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.

• 1946 USGS Lawton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Lawton quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1956 USGS Lawton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1956 USGS Lawton quadrangle1:62500
• 1981 USGS Lawton quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Lawton quadrangle1:24000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Lawton between 2001 and 2020, burning about 841 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 were 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Kiowa and Commanche Agency (historical)
• Sneed Acres
• Artillery Village
• Chatto Crossing
• Corral Crossing
• Grenade Crossing

Every fire recorded in Comanche County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Lawton: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Comanche County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lawton in 360 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 183 hail, 117 thunderstorm wind, 48 flash flood, 7 flood. The reports record 3 deaths and 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.

Every storm recorded in Comanche County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1094539. 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.