List of forts in the United States
This is a list of historical forts in the United States. World War II military reservations containing 8-inch and larger gun batteries are also included.
Alabama
- Fort Armstrong
- Fort Bibb
- Fort Blakely
- Fort Bowyer, later site of Fort Morgan
- Fort Carney
- Fort Charlotte
- Fort Claiborne
- Fort Crawford
- Fort Tombecbe/Fort Confederación[1]
- Fort Decatur
- Fort Deposit
- Fort Gaines, historic fort open to the public
- Fort Jackson
- Fort Louis de la Mobile
- Fort McClellan
- Fort Mims
- Fort Montgomery[2]
- Fort Morgan, historic fort open to the public
- Old Spanish Fort
- Fort Rucker
- Fort Sinquefield
- Fort Stoddert
- Fort Strother
- Fort Toulouse
- Fort Williams
Alaska
- Fort Abercrombie
- Fort Babcock[3]
- Fort Brumback[3]
- Fort Bulkley[3]
- Fort Greely
- Fort Learnard[4]
- Fort McGilvray
- Fort Randall
- Fort Raymond
- Fort Richardson
- Fort Peirce[5]
- Fort Rousseau
- Fort Schwatka
- Fort J. H. Smith[6]
- Fort Tidball[7]
- Fort Wainwright
- Fort William H. Seward
- Fort Yukon
- Post of Sitka[8]
- Redoubt St. Gabriel
- Fort Kodiak[9]
- Fort Kenay[10]
- Fort St. Nicholas
- Fort St. George
- Fort Wrangell
- Redoubt St. Dionysius[11]
- Fort Tongass
- Fort St. Paul[12]
- Fort St. Michael
- Fort Egbert
- Chilkoot Barracks
- Camp Skagway[6]
- Camp Dyea[13]
- Fort Gibbon
- Camp Rampart[5]
- Fort Davis
Arizona
- Fort Apache
- Fort Flanders
- Fort Bowie
- Fort Buchanan
- Fort Crittenden
- Fort Defiance
- Fort Grant
- Fort Huachuca
- Fort Lowell
- Fort McDonald
- Fort McDowell
- Fort Milligan
- Fort Misery
- Fort Mojave
- Fort Rock
- Fort Tyson (Charles)
- Fort Utah
- Fort Verde, historic buildings open to the public
- Fort Whipple
- Fort Yuma
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
- Fort Griswold
- Fort Nathan Hale, reconstructed historic fort open to the public
- Fort Trumbull, historic fort open to the public
- Fort Stamford Site
Delaware
- Fort Casimir
- Fort Christina
- Fort Delaware, historic fort open to the public
- Fort du Pont
- Fort Miles, one tower open to public while in renovation
- Fort Saulsbury
Florida
Georgia
- Fort Benning
- Fort Gaines
- Fort Gordon
- Fort Greene, destroyed by hurricane 1804[14]
- Fort Frederica
- Fort Gillem
- Fort Hawkins, partial re-creation sometimes open to the public
- Fort James Jackson (aka Old Fort Jackson or Fort Oglethorpe), historic fort open to the public
- Fort King George, re-constructed fort, now a state historic park
- Fort McAllister, state park with preserved earthwork fortification and museum
- Fort McPherson
- Fort at Point Petre, aka Fort Point Peter
- Fort Pulaski, historic fort open to the public
- Fort Scott
- Fort Screven
- Fort Stewart
Hawaii
- Fort Armstrong
- Fort Barrette[15]
- Fort DeRussy
- Fort Hase
- Fort Kamehameha
- Russian Fort Elizabeth
- Fort Ruger
- Schofield Barracks, a large installation, the home of the 25th Infantry Division
- Fort Shafter, 1907, Headquarters, US Army of the Pacific
- Fort Weaver[16]
Idaho
- Fort Boise
- Camp Connor
- Fort Hall, re-constructed fort (in Pocatello) open to the public
- Fort Lapwai
- Fort Sherman
Illinois
Reconstructed bastion of Ft de Chartres
Indiana
- Fort Benjamin Harrison
- Fort Finney renamed Fort Steuben
- Fort Harrison
- Fort Clark, a stockade built around Clarksville in 1783
- Fort Ouiatenon (not a U.S. military fort)
- Fort Vincennes (including Fort Knox I & II, Fort Sackville and Fort Patrick Henry)
- Fort Wayne / Fort Miami
Iowa
- Fort Atkinson (1840–1849)
- Fort Des Moines I, II, and III (1834–present)
- Fort Dodge (1850–1853)
- Fort Madison (1808–1813)
Kansas
- Fort Atkinson
- Fort Aubrey
- Aubry's Post
- Fort Bain
- Barnesville's Post
- Fort Belmont
- Fort Bissell (a trading post at what is now Phillipsburg, KS)
- Fort Blair (Fort Scott)
- Fort Brooks
- Burlingame's Fort
- Camp Ben Butler
- Fort de Cavagnial (sometimes seen as Fort Cavagnolle)
- Chapman's Dugout
- A.P. Chouteau's Fort
- Fort Clifton
- Fort Clinton
- Coldwater Grove's Post
- Council Grove's Post
- Camp Defiance
- Fort Dodge
- Fort Downer
- Fort Drinkwater
- Camp Drywood
- Eggert House
- Fort Ellsworth
- Fort Expedient
- Fort Fletcher
- Fort Folly
- Fort Harker
- Fort Hays
- Fort Henning
- Fort Humboldt
- Camp Hunter
- Indian Home Guard Camp (Baxter Springs)
- Fort Insley
- Fort Jewell
- Fort Kansas
- Fort Kanses
- Fort Lane
- Fort Larned
- Fort Leavenworth
- Fort Lecompton
- Fort Lincoln
- Fort Lincoln blockhouse
- Fort Lookout
- Fort Mann
- Fort McKean
- Fort Montgomery (Eureka)
- Fort Montgomery (Linn County)
- Fort Monument
- Mount Oread Civil War posts
- Fort Podunk
- Fort Pyramid
- Fort Riley
- Fort Roach
- Fort Row
- Fort Saunders
- Fort Scott
- Fort Simple
- Fort Solomon
- Fort Sully (Fort Leavenworth)
- Fort Sumner
- Fort Titus
- Fort de la Trinité
- Fort Village
- Fort Wakarusa
- Fort Wallace
- Fort Wichita
- Fort Wyncoop
- Fort Zarah
Kentucky
- Fort at the Falls
- Fort Boonesborough, Fort Boonesborough State Park
- Fort Campbell
- Fort Harrod, Old Fort Harrod State Park
- Fort Hartford, Hartford, KY
- Fort Knox
- Fort Nelson
- Newport Barracks
- Fort Vienna, Calhoun, KY
- Fort William
- Spring Fort
Louisiana
- Fort Jackson
- Fort Livingston
- Fort Macomb
- Fort Pike
- Fort Polk
- Fort Proctor/Fort Beauregard
- Fort St. Philip
Maine
- Fort Allen
- Fort Baldwin, historic fort open to the public
- Fort Edgecomb, historic fort open to the public
- Fort Foster, historic fort open to the public
- Fort George, state park
- Fort Gorges, historic fort open to the public
- Fort Halifax, reconstructed fort
- Fort Kent, a blockhouse remains
- Fort Knox, now a state park, historic fort
- Fort Levett, on a privately owned island
- Fort Lyon
- Fort McClary, now a state memorial, historic blockhouse is a museum
- Fort McKinley
- Fort O'Brien, state park
- Fort Pentagouet
- Peaks Island Military Reservation
- Fort Popham, historic fort open to the public
- Fort Preble
- Fort Scammel, on a privately owned island
- Fort Sullivan
- Fort Sumner
- Fort Williams, now a town park open to the public
- Fort William Henry, reconstructed as a park
Maryland
- Fort Armistead, abandoned historic fort
- Fort Carroll, abandoned historic fort
- Fort Cumberland
- Fort Defiance, abandoned historic fort
- Fort Detrick
- Fort Foote
- Fort Frederick, now a state park, restored historic fort
- Fort George G. Meade
- Fort Howard
- Fort Madison, at US Naval Academy, demolished[17]
- Fort McHenry, premier restored historic fort
- Fort Ritchie, Formerly Camp Humphreys, Closed 1996
- Fort Severn, at US Naval Academy, demolished
- Fort Smallwood
- Fort Washington
Massachusetts
- Acushnet Fort
- Fort Andrew
- Fort Andrews
- Fort Banks, historic battery
- Fort Dawes
- Fort Defiance
- Fort Devens
- Fort Duvall
- East Point Military Reservation
- Eastern Point Fort
- Fort Heath
- Fort Independence, historic fort open to the public
- Long Point Battery
- Fort Miller
- Fort Phoenix
- Fort Pickering
- Fort Revere
- Fort Rodman
- Fort Ruckman
- Fort Sewall
- Stage Fort
- Fort Standish (Boston)
- Fort Standish (Plymouth)
- Fort Strong
- Fort Taber
- Fort Warren, historic fort open to the public
- Fort Washington
- Fort Winthrop
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
- Fort Bellefontaine
- Fort Cap au Gris
- Fort Leonard Wood
- Fort Osage, open to the public, operated by Jackson County Parks
- Jefferson Barracks
Montana
Nebraska
- Alkali Station
- Armas de Francia
- Fort Atkinson
- Camp Augur
- Beauvais Station Post
- Fort Beaver Valley
- Fort Bellevue
- Bordeaux Trading Post
- Cabanne's Trading Post
- Fort Calhoun
- Fort Carlos
- Fort Charles
- Fort Childs
- Fort Clarke
- Columbia Fur Co. Post
- Columbus Post
- Fort Cottonwood
- Post Cottonwood Springs
- Camp Council Bluff
- Cantonment Council Bluffs
- Fort Crook
- Crooks & McClelland Post
- Cruzatte's Post
- Elm Creek Fort
- Fontenelle's Post
- Fort Gillette
- Gilman's Station Post
- Post at Grand Island
- Fort Grattan
- Fort Hartsuff
- Fort Heath
- Fort Independence
- Junction Station Post
- Fort Kearny
- Camp Keya Paha
- Fort Kiowa
- Liberty Pole Camp
- Fort Lisa
- Little Blue Station Post
- Mackay's House
- Camp McKean
- Cantonment McKean
- Fort McPherson
- Camp Meiklejohn
- Military Bridge Camp
- Fort Mirage Flats
- Camp Missouri
- Cantonment Missouri
- Camp Mitchell
- Fort Mitchell
- Fort Montrose
- Mullaly's Ranch Post
- Fort Niobrara
- North Platte Station
- O'Fallon's Bluffs Post
- Omaha Barracks
- Fort Omaha
- Omaha Post
- Post of the Otos
- Pawnee Post
- Pawnee Ranch Post
- Pilcher's Post
- Plum Creek Post
- Ponca Fort (Nanza)
- Ponca Post
- Camp Recovery
- Camp Red Willow
- Robideaux Pass Post
- Camp Robinson
- Fort Robinson
- St. Deroin Fort
- Camp Sargent
- Sarpy's Post
- Camp Saunders
- Camp Sheridan
- Fort Sheridan
- Sherman Barracks
- Camp Sherman
- Camp Shuman
- Sidney Barracks
- Fort Sidney
- Post at Spotted Tail Agency
Nevada
- Fort Churchill
- Fort Halleck
New Hampshire
- Fort Constitution, now a state park, lighthouse tower open only for tours
- Fort at Number 4, re-created as a living history museum
- Fort Dearborn
- Fort Stark
- Fort Washington
- Fort Wentworth
- Fort William and Mary (a.k.a. Fort Constitution)
New Jersey
New Mexico
- Fort Bascom
- Fort Bayard
- Fort Craig
- Fort Cummings
- Fort Fauntleroy (aka Fort Wingate)
- Fort Fillmore
- Fort Marcy
- Fort McRae[18]
- Fort Selden
- Fort Stanton
- Fort Sumner
- Fort Thorn (aka Fort Thorne)
- Fort Tularosa
- Fort Union
- Fort Webster[19]
- Fort Wingate (aka Fort Lyon)
New York
- Fort Amsterdam
- Castle Clinton
- Fort Clinton
- Fort Columbus
- Fort Crown Point
- Fort Drum
- Fort Edward
- Fort Gansevoort
- Fort Gibson
- Fort Greene
- Fort Hamilton
- Camp Hero
- Fort Jay
- Fort Lafayette
- Fort Lévis
- Madison Barracks, begun as Fort Pike
- Fort Michie
- Fort Montgomery (Hudson River)
- Fort Montgomery (Lake Champlain)
- Forts of New Netherland
- Fort Niagara
- Fort Ontario
- Fort de La Présentation
- Fort Schuyler
- Fort Slocum
- Fort Stanwix, reconstructed living history museum
- Fort Terry
- Fort Ticonderoga
- Fort Tilden
- Fort Tompkins (Buffalo, New York)
- Fort Tompkins (Plattsburgh, New York)
- Fort Tompkins (Sackets Harbor, New York)
- Fort Tompkins (Staten Island)
- Fort Totten
- Fort Tyler
- Fort Wadsworth
- Fort Washington
- Battery Weed
- Fort William Henry
- Castle Williams
- Fort Wood
- Fort H. G. Wright
North Carolina
- Fort Bragg
- Fort Branch
- Fort Caswell, now private property
- Fort Fisher, partly reconstructed fortifications with museum and guided tours
- Fort Greene
- Fort Hampton
- Fort Johnston
- Fort Lane
- Fort Macon, restored historic fort open to the public
- Fort Anderson (North Carolina), Historic Fort open to the public.
- Fort Dobbs (North Carolina), Rebuilt Historic colonial fort, State Historic site, open to the public
North Dakota
Ohio
This list is incomplete; Ohio has a few dozen forts. The list does not include most civil war and later forts.
Colonial era forts
- Fort Pickawillany
- Fort Gower
- Fort Au Glaize
- Fort Junandat (possibly mis-transliteration of "Wyandot"), a trading post
- Fort Laurens (occasionally spelled Lawrence)
- Fort Sandoské
- Fort Sandusky (1761)
post-revolutionary forts
- Campus Martius
- Fort Adams
- Fort Defiance (in 1812, Fort Winchester was erected on the same site)
- Fort Deposit
- Fort Dille also known as Dillies Fort and Dilles Bottom
- Fort Finney
- Fort Frye
- Fort Greene Ville
- Fort Hamilton
- Fort Harmar
- Fort Industry, a possibly temporary fortification on the upper Maumee River where the Treaty of Fort Industry was signed, sometimes named as one of Gen. Anthony Wayne's forts in the Northwest Indian War
- Fort Jefferson, originally Fort Deposit
- Fort Loramie (or Laramie)
- Fort Miamis
- Fort Piqua
- Fort Recovery
- Fort St. Clair
- Fort St. Mary's (in 1812, Fort Barbee was erected on the same site)
- Fort Steuben
- Fort Washington
War of 1812 era forts
- Fort Amanda
- Fort Ball
- Fort Barbee, also called Fort St. Mary's
- Fort Brown
- Fort Feree (also spelled Ferree)
- Fort Findlay
- Fort Huntington, originally Camp Harrison
- Fort Jennings
- Fort McArthur
- Fort Meigs
- Fort Seneca; also see Old Fort, Ohio
- Fort Stephenson originally Fort Sandusky (not the same as Fort Sandusky (1761))
- Fort Winchester
Civil War forts
- Fort Hayes, originally Columbus Arsenal, an Ohio Militia depot
20th century forts
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Fort Mifflin Commandant's House
- Fort Augusta
- Fort Bedford
- Fort Crawford
- Fort Duart A French and Indian War work along the Forbes Road.
- Fort Duquesne
- Fort Granville
- Fort Halifax
- Fort Hunter
- Fort Jones (Mount Oliver)
- Fort Laughlin
- Fort Le Boeuf
- Fort Ligonier
- Fort Machault
- Fort McIntosh
- Fort Mifflin
- Fort Necessity
- Fort Pitt
- Fort Presque Isle
- Fort Robert Smalls
- Fort Roberdeau
- Fort Venango
Puerto Rico
Rhode Island
South Carolina
- The Battery
- Fort Charlotte
- Fort Fremont
- Fort Howell
- Fort Jackson
- Fort Johnson
- Fort Lyttleton, also called Fort Marion
- Fort Motte
- Fort Moultrie
- Old Ninety Six and Star Fort
- Castle Pinckney
- Fort Prince George
- Fort Sumter
- Fort Wagner
- Fort Walker, also called Fort Welles
South Dakota
- Fort Bennett
- Fort Brule
- Fort Buckingham
- Fort Cedar
- Camp Cheyenne
- Fort Dakota
- Fort Defiance
- Fort Dole
- Camp Edwards
- Camp George Dewey
- Post at Grand River Indian Agency
- Fort Hutchinson
- Fort James
- Fort Lookout
- Fort Meade
- Fort Randall
- Camp Rapid
- Camp Reynolds
- Post at Rosebud Indian Agency
- Fort Sisseton
- Fort Sully
- Fort Thompson
- Camp Warren
- Post at Whetstone Indian Agency
- Fort Yankton
Tennessee
Texas
Vermont
Virginia
- Fort A.P. Hill
- Fort Albany
- Fort Boykin
- Craney Island Fort
- Fort Ethan Allen
- Fort Eustis
- Fort Huger
- Fort Hunt
- Fort John Custis
- Fort Lee
- Fort Loudoun
- Fort Monroe
- Fort Nelson
- Fort Norfolk
- Fort Myer
- Fort Pickett
- Fort Pocahontas
- Fort Powhatan[20]
- Fort Richardson
- Battery Rodgers
- Fort Scott
- Fort Story
- Fort Ward
- Fort Wool
Virgin Islands (U.S.)
- Fort Christian
- Fort Frederik
- Fort Segarra
- Fort Willoughby, Hassel Island
Washington
- Fort Canby
- Fort Casey, now a state park, some guns mounted
- Fort Columbia, now a state park, one building open to the public
- Fort Colville
- Fort Dent
- Fort Ebey
- Fort Flagler
- Fort George Wright
- Camp Hayden, now a state park, bunkers remain
- Fort Lawton
- Fort Lewis
- Fort Nez Percés (aka Old Fort Walla Walla)
- Fort Nisqually, rebuilt as a living history museum
- Fort Okanogan
- Fort Simcoe, now a state park, recreated and partially open to the public
- Fort Spokane
- Fort Townsend
- Fort Vancouver, fully recreated and open to the public
- Fort Walla Walla, museum and living history pioneer village
- Fort Ward, now a state park, some bunkers remain
- Fort Whitman
- Fort Worden, now a state park, bunkers remain, one building partially open to the public
Washington, D.C.
West Virginia
- Fort Ashby
- Fort Blair, a precursor to Fort Randolph
- Fort Milroy
- Fort Pearsall
- Prickett's Fort
- Fort Randolph
Wyoming
Cities and areas with Fort in the name
- Fort Smith, Arkansas
- Fort Bridger, Wyoming
- Fort Collins, Colorado
- Fort Garland, Colorado
- Fort Hunt, Virginia
- Fort Kent, Maine
- Fort Laramie, Wyoming
- Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- Fort Lawn, South Carolina
- Fort Lee, New Jersey
- Fort Lee, Virginia
- Fort Lupton, Colorado
- Fort Mill, South Carolina
- Fort Montgomery, New York
- Fort Myers, Florida
- Fort Pierre, South Dakota
- Fort Rock, Oregon
- Fort Thomas, Kentucky
- Fort Washakie, Wyoming
- Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Fort Worth, Texas
- Ticonderoga, New York
See also
- List of forts (worldwide)
- List of coastal fortifications of the United States
- List of United States Army installations
- List of fortifications
- List of castles
References
- Roberts 1988, pp. 3–4.
- Roberts 1988, p. 10.
- Roberts 1988, p. 20.
- Roberts 1988, pp. 23–24.
- Roberts 1988, p. 25.
- Roberts 1988, p. 28.
- Roberts 1988, p. 29.
- Roberts 1988, pp. 27–28.
- Roberts 1988, p. 23.
- Roberts 1988, pp. 22–23.
- Roberts 1988, pp. 26, 28.
- Roberts 1988, p. 27.
- Roberts 1988, p. 21.
- Roberts 1988, p. 224.
- Roberts 1988, p. 241.
- Roberts 1988, p. 247.
- Roberts 1988, pp. 386–387.
- Roberts 1988, p. 527.
- Roberts 1988, pp. 533–534.
- Roberts 1988, pp. 821–822.
Bibliography
- Lewis, Emanuel Raymond (1979). Seacoast Fortifications of the United States. Annapolis: Leeward Publications. ISBN 978-0-929521-11-4.
- Roberts, Robert B. (1988). Encyclopedia of Historic Forts: The Military, Pioneer, and Trading Posts of the United States. New York: Macmillan. ISBN 0-02-926880-X.
- Wade, Arthur P. (2011). Artillerists and Engineers: The Beginnings of American Seacoast Fortifications, 1794–1815. CDSG Press. ISBN 978-0-9748167-2-2.
- Weaver II, John R. (2018). A Legacy in Brick and Stone: American Coastal Defense Forts of the Third System, 1816-1867, 2nd Ed. McLean, VA: Redoubt Press. ISBN 978-1-7323916-1-1.
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