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History · Cache

Cache’s post office opened in 1902, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

More historic than 21% of U.S. towns · #96 of 131 in Oklahoma. What drives it

Most of Cache was built recently: 6% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1986. Its Register listing is the Parker, Quanah, Star House. Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1942 on, and the census since 1910.

1902first post office
1on the National Register
6%homes built before 1940
2old photos & papers
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From Cache’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Cache began

When was Cache founded?

1902

The Cache post office opened in 1902, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 317 in 19102020 census: 2,930124 years

How historic is Cache?

C−

More historic than 21% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: the first Cache post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade

What drives Cache’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Cache is more historic than 21% of U.S. towns, #96 of 131 in Oklahoma. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its age pulls it down.

C−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Cache’s overall grade.
Founding era1902, from the first post office: founded 1900–1944, an older era than 9% of U.S. townsDHomes built before 19405.8% of homes (±3.2) · typical OK town 7.0% · U.S. 8.4%CNational Register1 listing, 3.3 per 10,000 residents · typical OK town 5.9 · U.S. 2.4B−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 21%
NewerOlder
Oklahoma towns of 2,500+ (131)Ahead of 27%

Oklahoma towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Oklahoma town has 5.9 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Cache’s 3.3 sits near the middle of its state (45% of Oklahoma towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% of U.S. towns.

How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D to C+. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±3.2 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.

Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →

What stands out about Cache’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 2 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start Cache’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cache’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo1 archive item has no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewFuneral of Quanah Parker, Chief of the …: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story so far

Cache, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Cache yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Cache is a city in Comanche County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2020 census, Cache had a population of 2,930. It is an exurb included in the Lawton, Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is the location of Star House, the home of the Comanche chief Quanah Parker, the major leader of the Quahadi Comanche in the years of Indian Wars and transition to reservation life.

Its first post office opened in 1902. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 2,796 to 2,930 (+5%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Cache, 1902 to 1942

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1902Post officeThe Cache post office opens
  3. 1911In the archiveFuneral of Quanah Parker, Chief of the Comanches, at Post Oak Mission, near Cache, Okla. …
  4. 1942On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Cache, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1910s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1910s1 item
Funeral of Quanah Parker, Chief of the Comanches, at Post Oak Mission, near Cache, Okla. Feb. 24, 19111911Funeral of Quanah Parker, Chief of the Comanches, at …
1920s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Add from your album
Date unknown1 to date
Quanah Parker Home, 0.55 miles west of 810 North 8th StreetDate?Quanah Parker Home, 0.55 miles west of 810 North 8th …
Today7 recent
Cache OK Welcome 3-20252025Cache OK Welcome 3-2025Cache OK Park Buffalo 3-20252025Cache OK Park Buffalo 3-2025Cache OK Community Bldg 3-20252025Cache OK Community Bldg 3-2025Quanah Parker Star House2014Quanah Parker Star HouseIngram House2014Ingram HouseCache oklahoma city hall2010Cache oklahoma city hallOKMap-doton-Cache2004OKMap-doton-Cache
On the map

Cache on the map, 1942 to 1991

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Cache. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Cache on the 1942 USGS mapCache on the 1956 USGS mapCache on the 1975 USGS mapCache on the 1991 USGS map1942Cache sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Cache.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Funeral of Quanah Parker, Chief of the Comanches, at Post Oak Mission, near Cache, Okla. Feb. 24, 1911
Retake this viewFuneral of Quanah Parker, Chief of the Comanches, at Post Oak Mission, near Cache, Okla. Feb. 24, 1911, 1911

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Cache’s page.

Retake this view · +15
On the National Register

1 historic place in Cache

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1970
Parker, Quanah, Star House
Parker, Quanah, Star House
Buildings
Parker, Quanah, Star HouseBuilding

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

Cache, census by census

05001,0001,5002,0002,5003,0001920194019601980200020202,930

Grew from 317 people in 1910 to 2,930 in 2020, 9 times over.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Cache’s Wikipedia page.

Places that used to be

Places now gone

Cache’s post office has been open since 1902.

Gone or out of use
Wichita Parkpark

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Cache’s history

What year was Cache founded?

The Cache post office opened in 1902, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

How does Cache rank for history?

Cache is more historic than 21% of U.S. towns, #96 of 131 in Oklahoma. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.

What is on the National Register in Cache?

One place: the Parker, Quanah, Star House (listed 1970).

How old are the homes in Cache?

6% of Cache’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±3.2 points), against a typical 7.0% for an Oklahoma town; the median home was built in 1986.

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

From Wikimedia Commons (7), the Library of Congress (2), the National Register of Historic Places (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.