Lawton, Oklahoma

Lawton, United States

Lawton, Oklahoma holds 79 connections with 8021 other places across 20 topics, shaped most heavily by government and military themes. Fort Sill, the Army installation within the city, drives the military thread: the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure consolidated activities there, adding personnel from other bases. The city's name traces to Major General Henry Ware Lawton, a Civil War Medal of Honor recipient killed in the Philippine-American War. History connections run through the 1867 Medicine Lodge Treaty, which allotted surrounding lands to Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache tribes.