Biohazard Cleanup Near East Geronimo Geronimo, OK

Geronimo is a town in south-central Comanche County, Oklahoma, about nine miles south of Lawton near Interstate 44, and it is part of the Lawton metropolitan area.

The town was named for the famed Chiricahua Apache leader Geronimo, who was held as a prisoner of war at nearby Fort Sill.

Geronimo was platted in 1902 on the Enid and Anadarko Railway line from Lawton to Waurika, and its post office was established in March 1903.

Geronimo competed with nearby Junction City for the railroad depot - and won, which secured the young town's survival.

Eight years after its founding, Geronimo had just 186 residents, and its population dwindled to only 103 by 1950 before nearly tripling to 587 by 1970 as the Lawton area grew.

Geronimo's only newspaper, the Geronimo Advocate, published at least from 1906 to 1912.

The population of Geronimo was 1,158 at the 2020 census, down from its peak of 1,268 in 2010; at the 2010 census its residents lived in 451 households.

Geronimo covers about 1.5 square miles, all of it land, at the terminus of State Highway 281A.

On December 14, 1984, Geronimo was the scene of one of the deadliest bank robberies in recent Oklahoma history, in which a robber murdered three employees of the town's First Bank of Chattanooga branch; the perpetrators were convicted and sentenced to death in 1985.