Fort Supply, OK

Fort Supply is a town in Oklahoma. The 2020 census counted 317 residents. The United States Army post of Fort Supply was established in 1868 as a "Camp of Supply" for the winter campaign that General Philip Sheridan led against the Southern Plains Indians. In 1908, the State of Oklahoma transformed Fort Supply, the derelict army post, into Western Oklahoma State Hospital, also known as Western State Hospital or Fort Supply State Hospital, the first state-operated mental institution of Oklahoma. Fort Supply's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Oklahoma setting.

The local scoop is how Fort Supply's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Fort Supply is directly south; the Hal & Fern Cooper Wildlife Management Area, covering 16,080 acres and administered by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, is to the east. Fort Supply includes the United States Army Corps of Engineers administers Fort Supply Lake.