Fort Sill

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1869. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Fort Sill is a major United States Army post north of Lawton, Oklahoma, approximately 85 miles (137 km) southwest of Oklahoma City, established in 1869 during the Indian Wars. It covers almost 94,000 acres (38,000 ha) in southwestern Oklahoma and serves as headquarters of the U.S.”
Wikipedia article Fort Sill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Comanche County · listed in 1966 · category: District · built in 1869 · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. US 62, Fort Sill, 73503
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. district
Census division. Fort Sill
When was it built? 1869
National Register reference number. 66000629 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

66 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Fort Sill between 1999 and 2020, burning about 913 acres in total. 4 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	14
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Fireworks	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Natural	4
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Other causes	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
2 September 1999	Natural	5.0 acres	Southern Plains Regional Office	MEDICINE
12 September 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Anadarko Agency	SIGN
7 August 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Anadarko Agency	COMPLEX
6 August 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Anadarko Agency	MCCRACKEN FIRE
5 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Anadarko Agency	T.L.
30 August 2009	Debris and open burning	60 acres	Anadarko Agency	HIGHLAND
25 August 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Anadarko Agency	MCCRAKEN RD.
22 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Anadarko Agency	BART

Every fire recorded in Comanche County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fort Sill: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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	Dolomite, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

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
Chiefs Knoll	0.3 miles	1978
General Officers Quarters	0.7 miles	1975
Balloon Hanger at Henry Post Army Airfield	1.4 miles	2015
Comanche Indian Mission Cemetery	1.8 miles	2014
Post, Henry, Air Field	1.8 miles	1978
Medicine Bluffs	1.9 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000629 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.