Photograph of Fort Cobb — Photograph by Crimsonedge34, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fort Cobb Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Fort Cobb was a United States Army post established in what is now Caddo County, Oklahoma in 1859 to protect relocated Native Americans from raids by the Comanche, Kiowa, and Cheyenne. Emory at the beginning of the Civil War, but then occupied by Confederate forces from 1861-1862.”
Wikipedia article Fort Cobb, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Caddo County · listed in 1973 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · 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. 1 mi. E of Fort Cobb, Fort Cobb, 73038
When was it listed? March 1973
Category. site
Census division. Fort Cobb
National Register reference number. 73001556 - 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

161 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Fort Cobb Site between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,453 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 17 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	46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	37
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Arson/incendiarism	17
Fireworks	9
Natural	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	3
Other causes	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Anadarko Agency	TONKOWA
5 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Anadarko Agency	ETHEL FIRE
5 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Anadarko Agency	TWIN CITY FIRE
5 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Anadarko Agency	FORT COBB FIRE
5 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Anadarko Agency	APACHE WYE FIRE
3 September 2015	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Anadarko Agency	YELLOW LAB FIRE
26 September 2012	Natural	2.0 acres	Anadarko Agency	GOKEY DOKEY
11 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Anadarko Agency	WINDMILL

Every fire recorded in Caddo 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 Cobb Site: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Unknown Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Caddo 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73001556 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Caddo County	All 11 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.