Comanche County, Oklahoma (OK), United States, North America
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Fort Sill
, U.S. military reservation (
148 sq mi/383 sq km), Comanche
co., SW Okla., 4 mi/6.4 km N of Lawton;
25 mi/48 km long (E-W),
c.5 mi/8 km wide. It is home of the U.S. Army
Artillery and Missile Center. Est. 1869 by Gen. Philip Sheridan, the
fort was named in memory of Joshua W. Sill, a Civil War general. The
Wichita, Kiowa, Comanche, and other Native Amer. groups were ordered to
live on the reservation and trained in agr.; Geronimo (buried in the
Apache cemetery here) was imprisoned at the fort. Almost abandoned in
1904, it was revitalized by the establishment (1911) of a school that
was to become the U.S. army's main field-artillery training base.
There are 48 designated historic sites in the Fort Sill area. W
entrance at Cache. Henry Post Army Airfield in S part; Wichita Mts. to
NW. Fort Sill Mus.
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