Medicine Bluffs

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Comanche County · listed in 1974 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. Medicine Bluff Creek, Fort Sill, 73503
When was it listed? December 1974
Category. site
Census division. Fort Sill
National Register reference number. 74001659 - 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

94 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Medicine Bluffs between 1999 and 2020, burning about 4,750 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 9 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	22
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Fireworks	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Arson/incendiarism	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Other causes	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
19 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Anadarko Agency	BIG BEAR
12 September 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Anadarko Agency	SIGN
10 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Southern Plains Regional Office	SQUIRREL
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
6 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,500 acres	Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge	FT SILL FIRE
5 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Anadarko Agency	T.L.

Every fire recorded in Comanche County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Medicine Bluffs: 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Dolomite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown Limestone Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Limestone Pit	Dolomite, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Limestone Pit	Dolomite, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Limestone Pit	Dolomite, 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
General Officers Quarters	1.4 miles	1975
Chiefs Knoll	1.6 miles	1978
Old Tower Two	1.8 miles	1974
Fort Sill	1.9 miles	1966
Balloon Hanger at Henry Post Army Airfield	2.7 miles	2015
Post, Henry, Air Field	3.0 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001659 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.