Farm subsidies in Comanche County, Oklahoma
The Farm Service Agency paid 589 recipients $8.6 million through its Comanche office in 2023, across 1,936 payments — 1.3% of what it paid in Oklahoma.
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Comanche County in 2023
- $8.6 million
- Paid out
- $8,636,518
- 33 of 77 counties in Oklahoma by what the office paid.
- 589
- Recipients
- Name and mailing address as published, counted once however many payments.
- 1,936
- Payments
- One row of USDA’s file is one disbursement, not one recipient.
- $71
- Per resident
- Over the Census Bureau's 122,158 residents. Farm payments go to farms, not to residents — this is a way to compare counties, not a payment anyone received.
FSA calls this office Comanche and numbers it 31 within state 40, which is its own numbering and not the Census Bureau’s. The FIPS code for Comanche County is 40031.
What Oklahoma was paid for
The state’s programs, largest first. The published file records a program against a payment rather than against a county office, so these are Oklahoma’s figures and not this office’s.
| Program | Paid out | Recipients |
|---|---|---|
| LIVESTOCK FORAGE PROGRAM | $322,176,486 | 23,471 |
| EMERGENCY LIVESTOCK RELIEF PROGRAM - CAA | $78,967,735 | 31,365 |
| WEB-BASED NAP | $48,995,741 | 8,086 |
| EMERG ASSIST LIVESTOCK BEES FISH (ELAP) | $46,565,321 | 3,849 |
| AGRICULTURAL RISK COVERAGE PROG - COUNTY | $31,377,626 | 7,109 |
| EMERGENCY RELIEF PRGM 2 | $30,595,748 | 546 |
| EMRGNCY RELIEF PRGM TRK 1-NONSPCLTY CRPS | $25,580,247 | 2,446 |
| NON-INSURED ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | $17,538,563 | 3,393 |
The largest counties in Oklahoma
| County | Paid out | Recipients |
|---|---|---|
| Washita County | $23,424,693 | 983 |
| Cimarron County | $22,229,432 | 819 |
| Woods County | $20,553,930 | 660 |
| Jackson County | $20,489,279 | 722 |
| Kiowa County | $19,739,152 | 816 |
| Caddo County | $18,752,588 | 1,045 |
| Harmon County | $18,096,980 | 480 |
| Beaver County | $17,453,122 | 887 |
| Alfalfa County | $16,596,192 | 822 |
| Beckham County | $16,049,760 | 835 |
What the Farm Service Agency paid in Oklahoma · Federal awards recorded in Comanche County
Sources
- USDA Farm Service Agency — farm program payment files — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency · U.S. Government work. USDA states no licence on the payment-files page itself; its site-wide Digital Rights and Copyright notice reads "Most information presented on the USDA Web site is considered public domain information. Public domain information may be freely distributed or copied, but use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested. Attribution may be cited as follows: 'U.S. Department of Agriculture.'" It carves out third-party material — "Some materials on the USDA Web site are protected by copyright, trademark, or patent … USDA has made every attempt to identify and clearly label them" — which does not reach these files: they are FSA's own administrative record of disbursements it made, and are not labelled otherwise. The attribution is honoured rather than treated as optional: every page naming a figure from this file names the publisher and links the file. Read 22 September 2026 from a December 2024 archive snapshot, because usda.gov/policies-and-links returns 403 to scripted agents. · retrieved September 22, 2026
- Census Bureau county population estimates — U.S. Census Bureau · U.S. Government work, and the publisher's own words rather than recalled ones. The Census Bureau's Open Government page says: "The U.S. Census Bureau publishes its data as open data, meaning it is freely available for use and re-use by the public" — https://www.census.gov/about/policies/open-gov.html, read 23 September 2026. Its citation policy asks to be credited: "Proper citation ensures that Census Bureau statistical products and research can be discovered, reused, replicated for verification, and credited for recognition" — https://www.census.gov/about/policies/citation.html, same date. That is honoured rather than treated as optional: every page carrying a county figure from this file names the U.S. Census Bureau. · retrieved September 23, 2026
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