Blood & Biohazard Cleanup Near Cache Historic District Cache, OK

Cache is a city in Comanche County in southwestern Oklahoma, part of the Lawton metropolitan area, that got its start in 1901 when the federal government opened the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache tribal lands to settlement.

Cache was originally supposed to be named Quanah, but the U.S. Postal Service rejected the name because a Quanah, Texas already existed on the same mail and train route.

The 2020 census counted 2,930 people in Cache, up 4.8% from 2,796 in 2010; the 2010 census recorded 1,037 households in the city.

Cache is the site of Star House, the home of Quanah Parker, the great Quahadi Comanche leader who guided his people through the Indian Wars and into reservation life; the house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Quanah Parker could be seen almost daily in and around Cache in its earliest years, and he died at Star House on February 23, 1911.

Star House stands within Eagle Park, another Cache site listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Quanah Parker was first buried at Post Oak Mission Cemetery near Cache, but in 1957 his remains were moved to the Fort Sill Post Cemetery alongside his mother, Cynthia Ann Parker, and his sister Topsannah.

The Quanah Parker Society is based in Cache and holds an annual family reunion and powwow that includes tours of Star House and a memorial service at Fort Sill.

Cache covers about 3.4 square miles of former Comanche reservation land between Lawton and the Wichita Mountains.