Sponsored Topics. The city of Lawton is the county seat of Comanche County, in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Located in the southwestern region of Oklahoma approximately 80 miles (130 km) southwest of Oklahoma City, it is the principal city of the Lawton Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. According to the 2010 US Census, Lawton's population was 96,867, making it the fifth largest city in the state.
Shiprock is a dramatic 7,177-foot-high (2,188-meter) rock mountain located in northwestern New Mexico about 20 miles southwest of the town of Shiprock. Shiprock is on Navajo Nation land.
Although Shiprock is believed to have been created as much as 1,000 meters below the Earth's surface, millions of years of differential erosion have uncovered the main volcanic neck, or plug, as well as associated smaller plugs and six dikes radiating out from the center.