Fort Cobb WMA primitive camp #7

public land records

Agency-confirmed — The managing agency's own record names this as a campsite and puts it at these coordinates. About as good as it gets short of standing here.

AREA RULE (https://www.wildlifedepartment.com/hunting/regs/public-hunting-areas-special-regulations, read 2026-08-16): ODWC Special Regulations heading "Fort Cobb WMA" (county: Caddo) -- Additional Restrictions, verbatim: "Hunter and angler camping is allowed in designated areas." LEGAL BASIS -- ODWC Department-Managed Area Rules, https://www.wildlifedepartment.com/hunting/regs/department-managed-area-rules, read 2026-08-16, verbatim: "Camping is limited to a maximum of 16 consecutive days, and for no more than 21 days total in any 30-day period on the same WMA. Camping on these areas is limited to two days longer than the period the camper (hunter) is authorized to hunt. Leaving a campsite unattended for a period longer than 48 hours is prohibited. Unattended camp items will be removed. Quiet hours are enforced from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. All dogs or other pets must be kept on a leash or otherwise confined while in camping areas." FIRE -- same page, verbatim: "Fires shall be confined to those areas designated for camping and shall be contained in fireplaces, fire rings, grills, or other facilities designed for this purpose. Fires shall not be left unattended and must be completely extinguished prior to departure." ODWC does not publish a statewide seasonal fire ban on this page; Oklahoma county burn bans are issued separately and are not reflected here. Also verbatim from that page: "Public lands not specifically listed as open are closed." Read the area's own regulation before you go. THIS IS NOT A FEE-FREE PLACE TO ENTER -- fee=0 on this row means ODWC publishes NO per-night camping charge, not that access is free. ODWC's license fee table (https://www.wildlifedepartment.com/licensing/regs/license-fees, read 2026-08-16) states verbatim that an "Annual Wildlife Conservation Passport" is "Required of all persons 18 or older who enter Department owned lands, regardless of residency, unless exempt" at $46 for residents and $239 for nonresidents, and a "3-Day Wildlife Conservation Passport" at $26 / $51. A separate $100 / $200 "Land Access Permit" is "Required for residents ages 18 to 63, and nonresidents of any age, including lifetime license holders to access certain ODWC managed properties." ODWC's fee table says "unless exempt" but does not list the exemptions on that page, so we do not state who is exempt. Treat this as: budget for a permit, and check odwc before you drive. ODWC camp type: "Primitive". Restroom per ODWC: No. Showers per ODWC: No. Picnic area per ODWC: No. Grills per ODWC: No. ODWC publishes NO site name for this point -- the '#' number in our name is ours, assigned north-to-south within the area for stable identification. It is not an ODWC site number and it is not signed on the ground. WATER: ODWC's layer carries no drinking-water field for camping areas and this row claims none. Do not treat any lake, creek or pond near these sites as potable. COORDINATE PROVENANCE: latitude and longitude are ODWC's own, from its public ArcGIS service https://www.wildlifedepartment.com/server/rest/services/PublicWILMA/WILMAFeatures/MapServer/4 (layer 4, 'Camping Areas'), queried 2026-08-16 with where=1=1 outSR=4326. Every ingested point carries OPENTOPUBL='Yes' in that layer. No geocoding was used. Nearest town: Eakly ~7.7 mi. 'Nearest town' is STRAIGHT-LINE distance to the nearest OpenStreetMap place=city/town/village and is NOT a driving distance -- on a Corps lake shoreline or in the Ouachitas the road in is routinely two or three times longer. Ingest 2026-08-16. STATUS=pending: this is a lead for review, not published. --- NIGHT-SHIFT REVIEW 2026-08-20 (pass 5), reviewer nightshift-verified --- RE-CHECKED THE SOURCE THIS ROW WAS BUILT FROM. (1) The ODWC camping-areas layer cited above was re-queried live on 2026-08-20: https://www.wildlifedepartment.com/server/rest/services/PublicWILMA/WILMAFeatures/MapServer/4/query?where=1=1&outFields=*&outSR=4326&f=json returned 299 features. OBJECTID 94 is still there, still carries OPENTOPUBL="Yes", and its geometry still matches this row's latitude/longitude to better than 1e-5 degrees, about a metre. That held for every Oklahoma row we hold from this layer: 278 checked, 278 OBJECTIDs still present, 277 matching to under 1e-5 degrees and one ("A Frame", Beaver River WMA) shifted by roughly 10 m. (2) A CHECK THE ORIGINAL INGEST DID NOT DO: the coordinate was tested point-in-polygon against ODWC's separate boundary service, https://services1.arcgis.com/jRf8jjFwxedITdFe/arcgis/rest/services/Public_WMA_Boundaries/FeatureServer/1 (layer "Public_WMA_Boundaries_08172026", read 2026-08-20). It falls inside "Fort Cobb Wildlife Management Area" (3,547 acres, OWNERSHIP field "ODWC"). Two independent ODWC services agree on where this point is, so the "low" confidence on this row was never about the position. (3) Both rules pages quoted higher up were re-read on 2026-08-20 and every passage quoted above is still present word for word: the 16-consecutive-day / 21-days-in-30 camping limit, the 48-hour unattended-camp rule and the quiet-hours line at https://www.wildlifedepartment.com/hunting/regs/department-managed-area-rules; the "Fires shall be confined to those areas designated for camping..." paragraph and "Public lands not specifically listed as open are closed." on that same page; and the Annual ($46 / $239) and 3-Day ($26 / $51) Wildlife Conservation Passport rows at https://www.wildlifedepartment.com/licensing/regs/license-fees. (4) THE AREA'S OWN ODWC PAGE, which the original ingest never read: https://www.wildlifedepartment.com/hunting/wma/southwest/fort-cobb-wma, read 2026-08-20 -- its "Camping/Facilities" section reads, verbatim: "Camping areas and three improved boat ramps are located on the WMA. Camp sites with hookups are available at the Ft. Cobb State Park (405-643-2249).". (5) TWO CORRECTIONS TO THE PERMIT PARAGRAPH WRITTEN ABOVE. Both come from https://www.wildlifedepartment.com/licensing/regs/specialty-licenses, read 2026-08-20, which the original ingest also never read. (a) The "unless exempt" gap is now closed. Verbatim: "Wildlife Conservation Passport People who use Department owned areas for non-hunting or non-fishing activities, such as birdwatching or photography, are required to have either a Wildlife Conservation Passport or any current hunting or fishing license issued by the Wildlife Department. Persons 17 years of age or younger at the start of the calendar year, and students and instructors participating in bona fide educational tours or activities sponsored or organized by an education institution or any other organized event sanctioned by and approved in advance by the Wildlife Department are exempt." Note the first clause: a current Oklahoma hunting or fishing licence satisfies the requirement on its own, so do not tell a reader they must buy a $46 passport. (b) The $100 / $200 Land Access Permit paragraph above is TOO BROAD for this row and should not be repeated to a reader. Verbatim from the same page: "Land Access Permit Required for residents to hunt, fish or otherwise use Honobia Creek, Three Rivers and Herron Family WMAs, and OLAP properties. Nonresidents are required to purchase an annual permit, no exemptions." This area is not Honobia Creek, Three Rivers or Herron Family, so the Land Access Permit does not apply here. AREA RULE RE-READ 2026-08-20 at https://www.wildlifedepartment.com/hunting/regs/public-hunting-areas-special-regulations?page=3 -- the heading "Fort Cobb WMA" is still there and its "Additional Restrictions" block still reads, verbatim: "Hunter and angler camping is allowed in designated areas." That heading does NOT carry the binoculars icon the page uses to mark a "Conservation Passport Area". So three ODWC sources now agree that camping happens at this area: the camping-areas layer, the special regulations, and the area's own page quoted at (4). COUNT CHECK: ODWC's page says "Camping areas", plural, without a number, and the layer maps eight. Plural is consistent with eight but does not confirm it, so the count is unverified either way. The eight points are 708 m to 1.6 km apart, which is far too spread out to be one area recorded eight times. DUPLICATE CHECK, ON COORDINATES RATHER THAN NAMES: all 170 camps we already publish in Oklahoma were measured against this point. The closest is "Lake Vanderwork" (source odwc_pfa) at 30,185 m. Nothing we publish in Oklahoma is within 100 m of this coordinate, so this is not a duplicate. VERDICT: APPROVED. The agency point layer, the agency boundary layer, the current special regulations and the area's own page all still say what this row says. CONFIDENCE RAISED low -> verified-agency. That is a provenance label, not a guess about accuracy: the coordinate is ODWC's own, no geocoding was ever applied to it, and it now re-verifies against a second ODWC service. The old "low" tracked only the fact that ODWC publishes no SITENAME for this point, which is a naming gap and not a positional one.

US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.

On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.