Editing Fort Cobb, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
Fort Cobb was established as a U.S. Army frontier post in [[Indian Territory]] on October 1, 1859, {{convert|1|mi}} east of the present location of the town. The fort was named after [[Secretary of the Treasury]] [[Howell Cobb]], a friend of the founding [[Officer (armed forces)|officer]], [[Major (rank)|Major]] [[William Emory]]. The post was later occupied by both [[Confederate States Army|Southern]] and [[Union Army|Northern]] forces during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], the Union taking control of the fort as part of the 1862 [[Tonkawa massacre]].

Later, Lieutenant Colonel [[George Armstrong Custer]]'s command was encamped at Fort Cobb from December 18, 1868, to January 6, 1869. Shortly after that, on March 12, 1869, the fort was abandoned in favor of a location {{convert|30|mi}} to the south near the [[Wichita Mountains]], and renamed [[Fort Sill]].<ref>Wright, Muriel H., [http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v034/v034p053.pdf ''A History of Fort Cobb''], 1957 {{OCLC|8404632}}</ref><ref>[http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1912/f/fort_cobb.html ''Fort Cobb''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070102173438/http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1912/f/fort_cobb.html |date=January 2, 2007 }}, KS-Cyclopedia - 1912</ref>

The town of Fort Cobb was founded in 1899, and simply named Cobb, which was renamed Fort Cobb in 1902 to honor the defunct military post. At statehood in 1907, the town had 467 residents. The number had fallen to 382 at the 1910 census, but grew to 546 in 1920. The largest number of residents was 827 in 1930, but the population soon began a decline because of the Great Depression and World War II. In 1940 it was 699, falling to 665 in 1950. It rebounded to 687 in 1960, 722 in 1970 and 760 in 1980. There was another drop to 663 in 1990, followed by a rise to 663 in 1990 and 667 in 2000, before declining again to 634 in 2010 and 518 in 2020.<ref name="EOHC-Savage">[https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=FO030 Savage, Cynthia. "Fort Cobb." ''Encyclopedia of History and Culture''.] Accessed March 17, 2019.</ref><ref name="2020 census"/>