Arrastra Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

One of 35 National Register listings published here for Comanche County · listed in 1981 · category: Site.

Sources: 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. Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Cache, 73507
When was it listed? May 1981
Category. site
Census division. Northwest Comanche
National Register reference number. 81000455 - 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

198 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 198 fires within 5 miles of Arrastra Site between 1992 and 2020, burning about 58,948 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 31 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
Recreation and ceremony	56
Natural	34
Arson/incendiarism	31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Debris and open burning	24
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Fireworks	5
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Firearms and explosives use	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 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,000 acres	Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge	FTSILL9/7
7 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge	BURNT TRUC
6 September 2009	Natural	137 acres	Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge	JED STRIKE
6 September 2009	Fireworks	under an acre	Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge	PARALLEL FOREST
5 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge	ARSON1
3 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge	DORISCF2
27 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	28 acres	Anadarko Agency	RHOADES RD.
26 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge	TARBONE STRIKE

Every fire recorded in Comanche County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Arrastra Site: 12 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Lead, Zinc. 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
Cross Mountain-1	Copper, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	1909, 1915
Hardin Prospect-1	Copper, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	1902, 1903, 1909
Lake Lawtonka Placer	Titanium, Metal	Occurrence	Ilmenite
Parker Prospect	Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc, Gold	Past Producer	1902, 1907, 1912
Three Boys Claim	Copper, Nickel	Past Producer	1902, 1903
Unknown Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pearson Prospect	Copper, Silver	Past Producer	1904, 1906
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Comanche County

Storms near this property

60 of 93 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cache, the town this property stands in, in 93 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 56 hail, 24 thunderstorm wind, 10 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Cache	1 hurt, $50,000	Strong winds ripped off a 2500 square foot section of the roof of the Trading Post. One woman was injured when portions of the roof hit her in the face. A mobile home was also flipped onto its side.
May 2015	Flash Flood	Cache	$800,000	Flood waters up to roofs of homes in the Rock Creek subdivision.
May 2015	Flash Flood	Cache	$300,000	Homes flooding with vehicles floating away from residences.
April 2013	Tornado (EF0)	Cache	$200,000	The tornado was reported on the west side of Lawton. Minor damage was done to the Goodyear Tire Plant at southwest Lee and Goodyear Boulevards.
May 2015	Flash Flood	Cache	$70,000	Water up to three to four feet deep on area roads. Numerous water rescues underway.
May 2025	Flash Flood	Cache	$50,000	Roadway flooding occurred near the intersection of E Avenue and 8th Street in the community of Cache. Multiple vehicles became stranded in floodwaters, and at least one water rescue was performed near this location. The event time is approximate.
June 1998	Lightning	Cache	$20,000	Lightning struck and set fire to 2 buildings at an old amusement park. Both buildings were completely destroyed.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Cache	$15,000	Three power poles were snapped along a portion of Lee Boulevard. The event time is estimated based on radar observations.
October 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Cache	$15,000	no account filed
November 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Cache	$5,000	Relayed images show thunderstorm wind damage in the Cache community, including tree branches blown down and at least one (wooden) power pole snapped. Event time is radar-estimated.
September 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Cache	$5,000	Gas station awning and partial roof damage due to a downburst.
September 2005	Tornado (F1)	Cache	$5,000	A tornado occurred within the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge which was surveyed by a National Weather Service meteorologist and the deputy refuge manager. The tornado touched down to the west of the Boulder Camp area in the southwest part of the refuge. Significant tree damage occurred in the area just to the north of Boulder Camp and along the road that leads to Boulder Camp as the tornado moved east and east-northeast. A number of eight to twelve inch diameter trees were snapped or uprooted. The tornado continued to veer to the left moving north-northeast crossing the main highway just one mile west of the main campground and Quanah Parker Lake. It continued to create light tree damage as it moved northeast and before dissipating on the south or east face of Bushman Mountain.No structures were hit, and there were no known injuries to wildlife in the refuge.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Cache	$5,000	no account filed
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Cache	$5,000	no account filed
November 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Cache	$5,000	no account filed
November 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Cache	$5,000	no account filed
September 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Cache	$2,000	Power lines downed and structure damage near Chisholm Corner in Cache.
October 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Cache	$2,000	Powerpoles partially blown down. Time estimated by radar.
April 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Cache	$1,000	A garage door was blown out.
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Cache	$1,000	Numerous power poles were downed.
April 2026	Hail	Cache	-	The report was relayed through mPING.
April 2025	Flash Flood	Cache	-	Roadway flooding in and around the community of Cache, including a portion of Oklahoma Highway 115 south of Cache Road, which was impassable. Event time is approximate.
April 2024	Flash Flood	Cache	-	Multiple law enforcement and emergency management confirmations of roadway flooding in and around the community of Cache. Event time is approximate.
June 2024	Hail	Cache	-	Relayed image through broadcast media. Time is radar estimated.
June 2023	Hail	Cache	-	MPing report.
May 2020	Flash Flood	Cache	-	Heavy street flooding reported in many city streets.
September 2017	Flash Flood	Cache	-	A report was relayed by broadcast media that the intersection of NW Cache Rd and NW Airport Rd was flooded and impassible.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Cache	-	No damage reported.
March 2013	Hail	Cache	-	Hail fell near the intersection of Deyo Mission Rd. and SW Woodlawn Dr.
April 2013	Hail	Cache	-	No damage was reported.
April 2013	Hail	Cache	-	No damage was reported.
April 2013	Hail	Cache	-	No damage was reported.
May 2011	Hail	Cache	-	The hail report was relayed by KSWO-TV.
February 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Cache	-	A barn was heavily damaged. Numerous tree limbs were also downed. Monetary estimates were not available.
December 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Cache	-	Part of a aluminum roof was removed by high winds from a trailer home. Two residents asleep underneath the damaged roof were not injured. No other damage was reported. No monetary damages were given.
June 2007	Flash Flood	Cache	-	Southwest Coombs Road was closed between HWY 115 and Southwest Quanah Road due to high water.
June 2006	Hail	Cache	-	Hail report gathered by the NSSL Severe Hail Verification Experiment (SHAVE).
June 2006	Hail	Cache	-	Hail report gathered by the NSSL Severe Hail Verification Experiment (SHAVE).
June 2006	Hail	Cache	-	Hail report gathered by the NSSL Severe Hail Verification Experiment (SHAVE).
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Cache	-	A vehicle was blown off the road.
June 1999	Flash Flood	Cache	-	Heavy rainfall caused portions of Highway 62 in Cache to become covered with water.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Cache	-	Thunderstorm in southwest Oklahoma during the morning hours on the 10th produced damaging winds which downed power lines in Cache.
June 2023	Hail	Cache	-	no account filed
May 2020	Hail	Cache	-	no account filed
May 2020	Hail	Cache	-	no account filed
May 2020	Hail	Cache	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Cache	-	no account filed
October 2019	Hail	Cache	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Cache	-	no account filed
November 2018	Hail	Cache	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Cache	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Cache	-	no account filed
March 2013	Hail	Cache	-	no account filed
March 2013	Hail	Cache	-	no account filed
March 2013	Hail	Cache	-	no account filed
March 2013	Hail	Cache	-	no account filed
March 2013	Hail	Cache	-	no account filed
April 2013	Hail	Cache	-	no account filed
April 2013	Hail	Cache	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Cache	-	no account filed

Every storm 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
Meers Mining Camp	1.5 miles	1978
Holy City of the Wichitas Historic District	1.6 miles	2019
Ingram House	3.1 miles	1981
Ferguson House	3.5 miles	1981
Medicine Park Hotel and Annex	4.8 miles	1979
Boulder Cabin	7.0 miles	1981

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 81000455 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.