Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 317
Land area (2000): 0.510277 sq. miles (1.321611 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.510277 sq. miles (1.321611 sq. km)
FIPS code: 27100
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 35.099581 N, 98.438498 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 73038
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Fort Cobb
Wikipedia
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. The fort was abandoned by Maj. William H. Emory at the beginning of the Civil War and remained abandoned until it was reoccupied in 1868. After establishing Fort Sill the Army abandoned Fort Cobb. Today there is little left of the former military post.
Major William H. Emory, commander at Forts Washita and Arbuckle, established Fort Cobb in October 1859 on the west side of Pond Creek, near its confluence with the Washita River. The fort was named in honor of Howell Cobb, then Secretary of the Treasury.
In 1973, the site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Usage examples of "fort cobb".
Like Fort Cobb to the northwest or Fort Reno due north, Fort Sill had been built more as a small town for lots of soldiers than what Eastern folks pictured when they thought of a frontier outpost.