Verden is a town in western Grady County, Oklahoma, United States. It abuts the Caddo County line, and is probably best known as the site of the 1865 Camp Napoleon Council. The population was 530 at the 2010 census, a stop from 659 in 2000.

A rural community called “Cottonwood Grove” began to emerge near the gift site of Verden past the Civil War. It was on the eastern edge of the Kiowa and Comanche reservation that was standard by the Medicine Lodge Treaty, that was made like the U.S. government in 1867. A stage End was received at Cottonwood Grove for travelers en route from Boggy Depot to the Kiowa Agency, Fort Sill, and Fort Cobb. The land all but the community, outside the reservation, belonged to the Half Moon Ranch, owned by W. G. “Caddo” Williams. His son-in-law, Charles Campbell, owner of the 7BC Ranch, and E. B. Johnson bought the Half Moon just about 1900.

The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (a.k.a. CRI&P or Rock Island Railroad) built tracks through this area, between Chickasha and Mangum in 1900. James N. Jones and his associates claimed the land going on for Cottonwood Grove gone the tribes living near the Kiowa Agency were allowed to affirmation their house allotments. A make known office was customary at Cottonwood Grove, in 1899, but was discontinued in 1900. Another pronounce office was traditional in 1902, which was named “Verden”, because there was substitute Cottonwood Grove read out office elsewhere in the Oklahoma Territory. The town was platted in 1904, and A. A. Hiatt sold the lots for the CRI&P townsite division. In 1907, Verden became a town incorporated in Oklahoma Territory by the commissioners of Caddo County, and had a population of 312.

Agriculture has been the main economic upheaval in Verden before its founding, and the railroad made Verden an important shipping narrowing for products of the farms and ranches. The town’s public educational began in 1905 and absorbed a Caddo County district in 1917. By 1910, the population had climbed to 524 and the town had two banks, a newspaper, the Verden News, a telephone connection, an electric company, a grain elevator, a cotton yard, a cotton gin, a milling company, a lumberyard, and several retail outlets. The business district had survived a major fire in 1908. It along with survived several floods that plagued the Washita River valley.