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Steen’s Buttes

Caddo County
Location: at junction of OK-66 and US-281, four miles north of Hinton
Coordinates: 35.535950, -98.351011
Material: Aluminum
Sponsor(s): Okahoma Historical Society and the Oklahoma Department of Transportation
Topics: Environmental/Cultural Ecology; Transportation; Westward Expansion, 1803–1861

Exploring parties saw these natural mounds and named them for Major Enoch Steen of the First Dragoon Regiment, who commanded an escort on a road survey to California in 1858 under the direction of Lt. Edward F. Beale. The easternmost of the mounds is named Rock Mary.

Note: This marker no longer exists.

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