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Comanche County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in Central Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 13,594. [1] [2] The county seat is Comanche. [3] The county was founded in 1856 and is named for the Comanche Native American tribe.
Lawton is the county seat of Comanche County, and houses county offices and courts. Three elected commissioners serving four-year terms manage the county government. [79] At the federal level, Lawton lies in Oklahoma's 4th congressional district, represented by Tom Cole.
Comanche County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.As of the 2020 census, the population was 121,125, [1] making it the fifth-most populous county in Oklahoma. . Its county seat is Lawton.
In 1884 G.W. Vickers conceived the idea of laying out a town in the northern part of Comanche County, in company with Timothy Shields, J. P. Grove, Samuel Sisson, C. M. Cade and C. D. Bickford, all from Harper County. They preempted a section of land, had it platted off as a town site and named it after the city of Coldwater, Michigan. [5]
The town of Coldwater was founded in 1884 by a group from Harper, Kansas, who saw potential in the northern part of Comanche County. The county organized in 1885 with Coldwater serving as the county seat. The arrival of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad in 1887 boosted prosperity population growth by improving transportation in the county.
Gustine is a town located in Comanche County in Central Texas, United States. The population was 392 at the 2020 census , [ 4 ] down from 476 at the 2010 census . The town, formerly known as Cora , was the county seat in the 1850s.
Comanche County: 031: Lawton: 1907: Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache reservation: The name Comanche comes from the Ute word kɨmantsi meaning 'enemy, stranger'. [28] 113.73 121,574: 1,069 sq mi (2,769 km 2) Cotton County: 033: Walters: 1912: Lands of Quapaws, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Comanche Reservation, and Big Pasture: The principal economic base of ...
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