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Ft Sill

Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma
428FABdeSSI.svg ADA School SSI.svg 75FiresBdeSSI.jpg 31ADABdeSSI.svg
Shoulder sleeve insignia of units stationed at Fort Sill
Coordinates 34°42′15″N 98°30′30″W / 34.70417°N 98.50833°W / 34.70417; -98.50833Coordinates: 34°42′15″N 98°30′30″W / 34.70417°N 98.50833°W / 34.70417; -98.50833
Type Military post
Site information
Controlled by United States
Site history
Built 1869
In use 1869–present
Garrison information
Past
commanders
MG Mark McDonald
Garrison United States Army Field Artillery School
United States Army Air Defense Artillery School
75th Fires Brigade
31st Air Defense Artillery Brigade
Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Fort Sill;infantrybarracks.jpg
Old infantry barracks at Fort Sill.
Fort Sill is located in Oklahoma
Fort Sill
Fort Sill is located in the US
Fort Sill
Location Lawton, Oklahoma
Architect US Army
NRHP Reference # 66000629
Significant dates
Added to NRHP October 15, 1966
Designated NHL 19 December 1960

Fort Sill, Oklahoma is a United States Army post north of Lawton, Oklahoma, about 85 miles southwest of Oklahoma City.

Today, Fort Sill remains the only active Army installation of all the forts on the Southern Plains built during the Indian Wars. It is designated as a National Historic Landmark and serves as home of the United States Army Field Artillery School as well as the Marine Corps' site for Field Artillery MOS school, United States Army Air Defense Artillery School, the 31st Air Defense Artillery Brigade, and the 75th Fires Brigade. Fort Sill is also one of the four locations for Army Basic Combat Training. It has played a significant role in every major American conflict since 1869.

The site of Fort Sill was staked out on 8 January 1869 (factual evidence of actual date needed), by Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, who led a campaign into Indian Territory to stop hostile tribes from raiding border settlements in Texas and Kansas.

Sheridan's massive winter campaign involved six cavalry regiments accompanied by frontier scouts such as Buffalo Bill Cody, Wild Bill Hickok, Ben Clark and Jack Stilwell. Troops camped at the location of the new fort included the 7th Cavalry, the 19th Kansas Volunteers and the 10th Cavalry, a distinguished group of black "buffalo soldiers" who constructed many of the stone buildings still surrounding the old post quadrangle.


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