Geronimo, Oklahoma

A small town in Comanche County carries one of the most famous names in the American West, and the reason is geographical. Geronimo, the Chiricahua Apache leader, spent the last years of his life as a prisoner of war at Fort Sill, about a dozen miles away. He had surrendered in Skeleton Canyon, Arizona, in eighteen eighty-six, and after stints in Florida and Alabama he was sent to Fort Sill in eighteen ninety-four.

He would die there in nineteen oh nine. When the Enid and Anadarko Railway laid tracks through southern Comanche County in nineteen oh two, the new depot town was platted and named in his honor, and it grew into a small commercial center.