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One of 35 National Register listings published here for Comanche County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Balloon Hanger at Henry Post Army Airfield
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 5037 Tucker Rd., Fort Sill, 73503
- When was it listed? November 2015
- Category. building
- Census division. Fort Sill
- National Register reference number. 15000826 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
39 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Balloon Hanger at Henry Post Army Airfield between 2000 and 2019, burning about 571 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
| 12 September 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Anadarko Agency | SIGN |
| 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 |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Balloon Hanger at Henry Post Army Airfield: 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.
| Where | 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 |
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 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Post, Henry, Air Field | 0.4 miles | 1978 | |
 | Comanche Indian Mission Cemetery | 0.4 miles | 2014 |
| Chiefs Knoll | 1.3 miles | 1978 | |
 | Fort Sill | 1.4 miles | 1966 |
 | Lawton National Guard Armory | 1.9 miles | 2007 |
 | General Officers Quarters | 1.9 miles | 1975 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 15000826 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.