Mountain Park is a town in Kiowa County, Oklahoma, United States.
A post office was established at Burford in August 1901, just after the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation opened for settlement by non-Indians.
In February 1902, the town that had sprung up around the trading post and changed its name to Mountain Park.
[5] According to Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, the Oklahoma City and Western Railroad offered Mountain Park resident Sol Bracken six thousand dollars for a 160 acres (65 ha) tract on which to build a station.
Instead, company officials rerouted their railroad through the town of Snyder, two miles south of Mountain Park.
[5] On March 7, 2008, KSWO-TV reported that the former town clerk was fired for allegedly secretly embezzling $100,000 over a period of two years, leaving the town unable to pay its bills and forcing it to raise utility rates for residents.
[5] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.8 square miles (2.1 km2), all land.