Comanche County

First settled in 1854 by five families, Comanche County was created and organized in 1856 and named for the Comanche Indians, lords of the Texas frontier, who were losing hunting grounds to settlers. Its first county seat was Cora, and Comanche has been the county seat since July 18, 1859. Indians harassed settlers by stealing cattle and horses and keeping farmers out of fields, and in 1861 food from neighboring Bell County kept people from starvation. By 1879 a stage line crossed the county, the Texas Central Railroad came through in 1880, and the Fort Worth & Rio Grande Railroad arrived in 1890. An oil boom occurred in 1918-1920, and agriculture has long been the major industry.

Comanche, Texas · United States