Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
From the record
“The Holy City of the Wichitas is a public park and outdoor theater in the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge outside of Lawton, Oklahoma. Made up of locally sourced granite, the 66-acre park aims to replicate ancient Jerusalem during Biblical times.”
Wikipedia article Holy City of the Wichitas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 35 National Register listings published here for Comanche County · listed in 2019 · category: District.
National Register reference number. 100004547 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
240 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 240 fires within 5 miles of Holy City of the Wichitas Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 87,834 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 37 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.
Reported cause
Fires
Recreation and ceremony
79
Natural
38
Arson/incendiarism
37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
30
Debris and open burning
23
Equipment and vehicle use
19
Fireworks
5
Smoking
3
Firearms and explosives use
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
11 workings within 5 miles of Holy City of the Wichitas Historic District: 11 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Lead, Copper, Copper, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Medicine Park, the town this property stands in, in 68 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 42 thunderstorm wind, 22 hail, 2 tornado, 2 flash flood.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
Numerous relayed images and videos showing extensive flash flooding in and around the community of Lawton. Multiple water rescues were performed, and multiple vehicles were stranded in floodwaters. A man drowned when his vehicle became submerged in floodwaters near the intersection of 2nd Street and F Avenue. Event time is approximate.
Media station KSWO 7 in Lawton reported numerous roads and intersection were closed and impassable due to flash flooding. No damage or injuries reported.
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
6 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.
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.
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.
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