Chattanooga

History

Chattanooga emerged after the opening of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation to non-Indian settlement on August 6, 1901. Named by N. C. Sisson after his hometown in Tennessee, the Chattanooga Town Company, comprising Sisson, T. E. Richey, and E. C. Blake, obtained the townsite patent on December 18, 1902. The post office was established in January of the following year. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway played a pivotal role in Chattanooga's early development, extending a branch line from Lawton in 1903. The railway facilitated access to the Big Pasture, opened for settlement in 1906. The branch line was completed to Grandfield in 1920, and was later abandoned in 1942. Chattanooga, with rail access, quickly became an agricultural center, boasting three cotton gins, a lumberyard, a feed yard, and various small businesses by 1912. In 1930, the town had two gins and two elevators.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.6 square miles (1.5 km2), all land.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Red-winged Blackbird

  Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  77
• Mourning Dove

  Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  68
• House Sparrow

  Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  66
• Eastern Meadowlark

  Sturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  64
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

  Tyrannus forficatus (Gmelin, 1789) · Aves
  64
• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  58
• European Starling

  Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  56
• Eurasian Collared-Dove

  Streptopelia decaocto (Frivaldszky, 1838) · Aves
  55

Most recent

• M 2.51 — 2025-12-03
  10 km ESE of Loco, Oklahoma
• M 2.61 — 2025-11-21
  9 km ESE of Loco, Oklahoma
• M 2.6 — 2025-07-30
  3 km SSW of Chickasha, Oklahoma
• M 3.68 — 2023-09-25
  9 km WNW of Velma, Oklahoma
• M 2.95 — 2023-09-21
  8 km WNW of Velma, Oklahoma
• M 2.84 — 2023-09-21
  8 km W of Velma, Oklahoma