"[5] The community's largest event is the annual Rush Springs Watermelon Festival, which attracts about 30,000 people each year.

Cattlemen watered their herds of cattle they were driving north from Texas to Kansas on the Chisholm Trail, which passed east of here.

[7] That year, Brigadier General David S. Briggs had ordered Brevet Major Earl Van Dorn to take command of the Second Cavalry at Fort Belknap, Texas.

He was directed to proceed north of the Red River into Indian Territory and forcibly restrain belligerent Comanche warriors who were raiding settlements.

Van Dorn and his men advanced on the Comanche, who were camped on Rush Creek near a Wichita village.

[8] Van Dorn and his men attacked the Comanche camp about dawn on October 1, 1858, catching the warriors completely off guard.

In the aftermath of the attack, the troops found that the Comanche had lost seventy people, mostly men but also some tribeswomen who had accompanied them.

The army was reported to have set fire to the Wichita fields nearby, destroying their food crop and endangering their survival.

[7] The first post office was designated as Parr, and opened at the Samuel M. Huntley ranch house in July 1883.

During the Great Depression, a Civilian Conservation Corps project was initiated on the east side of Rush Springs to provide employment and improve the region.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Rush Springs has a total area of 1.0 square mile (2.7 km2), all land.