Blood & Biohazard Cleanup Near Downtown Comanche Comanche, OK

Comanche is a small city in southwestern Stephens County, eight miles south of Duncan on U.S. Highway 81, with State Highway 53 crossing it from east to west.

The settlement began north of the present site as Tucker, in Pickens County of the Chickasaw Nation, where a post office was established on April 28, 1887.

In 1892 Chickasaw landowner Johnny D. Wilson platted the present townsite on his allotment when the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway arrived, and the post office moved there and took the name Comanche in January 1893.

Wilson insisted the town be named Comanche for the Comanche Indians who once roamed the area, turning down suggestions of 'Wilson Town' and 'Border Queen'.

Comanche was incorporated on November 23, 1898, while it was still part of Indian Territory.

The famous Chisholm Trail, used to drive huge herds of Texas cattle north after the Civil War, passed about two miles east of present-day Comanche.

Comanche's population more than doubled in its first census decade, from 547 in 1900 to 1,301 in 1910, helped by oil wells opened in the vicinity.

The city's population peaked at 2,083 in the 1950 census.

The 2020 census counted 1,378 residents in Comanche, down about 17 percent from 1,663 in 2010.

In the 2000 census, Comanche's 1,556 residents lived in 642 households across the city's roughly 4.6 square miles.