Comanche Indian Mission Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Comanche County · listed in 2014 · category: Site.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Henry Post Army Airfield, 4900 Area, Fort Sill, 73503
When was it listed? February 2014
Category. site
Census division. Fort Sill
National Register reference number. 12000437 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

44 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Comanche Indian Mission Cemetery between 2000 and 2019, burning about 555 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning	13
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Fireworks	5
Smoking	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Other causes	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
3 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Anadarko Agency	SE-BISHOP
2 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Anadarko Agency	RAILROAD & BISHOP
12 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Anadarko Agency	SE-BISHOP-3
30 August 2009	Debris and open burning	60 acres	Anadarko Agency	HIGHLAND
24 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Anadarko Agency	MULLEN
22 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Anadarko Agency	BART
21 August 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Anadarko Agency	HIGHLAND
4 July 2013	Fireworks	under an acre	Anadarko Agency	BINGO

Every fire recorded in Comanche County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

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

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Unknown Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Limestone Pit	Dolomite, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Wolf Creek-1	Copper	Occurrence	1936

Every working recorded in Comanche 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.

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Post, Henry, Air Field	0.2 miles	1978
Balloon Hanger at Henry Post Army Airfield	0.4 miles	2015
Lawton National Guard Armory	1.5 miles	2007
Chiefs Knoll	1.7 miles	1978
Fort Sill	1.8 miles	1966
Building 309, Fort Sill Indian School	1.8 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12000437 in Record Group 79.
Comanche County	All 35 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.
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.