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 Bowyer, later site of Fort Morgan
Fort Blakely
Fort Charlotte
Fort Claiborne
Fort Tombecbe/Fort Confederación[1]
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 Stoddert
Fort Strother
Fort Toulouse

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

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 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
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 Winthrop

Michigan

Fort de Buade
Fort Detroit
Fort Holmes
Fort Mackinac
Fort Miami
Fort Michilimackinac
Fort St. Joseph (Niles)
Fort St. Joseph (Port Huron), rebuilt as Fort Gratiot
Fort Wayne (Detroit)
Fort Wilkins

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.

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

Fort Amezquita
Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico
El Cañuelo
Fort San Cristóbal (Puerto Rico)
Fort San Felipe del Morro
Fortín de San Gerónimo
Fuerte de Vieques

Rhode Island

South Carolina

Fort Sumter

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

The Alamo
Fort Bliss
Fort Brown
Fort Concho
Fort Crockett
Fort D. A. Russell
Fort Davis
Fort Hood
Fort Saint Louis
Fort San Jacinto
Fort Travis
Fort Worth

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

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.

Fort DeRussy
Fort McNair
Fort Stevens
Fort Totten

West Virginia

Fort Ashby
Fort Blair, a precursor to Fort Randolph
Fort Milroy
Fort Pearsall
Prickett's Fort
Fort Randolph

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Camp Augur
Fort Bridger
Camp Brown
Fort Caspar
Fort D.A. Russell
Fort Fetterman
Fort Francis E. Warren, now the Francis E. Warren Air Force Base
Fort Fred Steele
Fort Halleck
Fort Laramie
Fort Phil Kearny
Fort Platte
Fort Reno
Fort Sanders
Camp Stambaugh
Fort Washakie
Fort Yellowstone

Cities and areas with Fort in the name

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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

External links

List of all US coastal forts and batteries at the Coast Defense Study Group, Inc. website
American Forts Network, lists forts in the US, former US territories, Canada, and Central America
FortWiki, lists most CONUS and Canadian forts
US National Park Service list of parks with forts

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[FOOTNOTERoberts19883–4-1] Roberts 1988, pp. 3–4.

[FOOTNOTERoberts198810-2] Roberts 1988, p. 10.

[FOOTNOTERoberts198820-3] Roberts 1988, p. 20.

[FOOTNOTERoberts198823–24-4] Roberts 1988, pp. 23–24.

[FOOTNOTERoberts198825-5] Roberts 1988, p. 25.

[FOOTNOTERoberts198828-6] Roberts 1988, p. 28.

[FOOTNOTERoberts198829-7] Roberts 1988, p. 29.

[FOOTNOTERoberts198827–28-8] Roberts 1988, pp. 27–28.

[FOOTNOTERoberts198823-9] Roberts 1988, p. 23.

[FOOTNOTERoberts198822–23-10] Roberts 1988, pp. 22–23.

[FOOTNOTERoberts198826,_28-11] Roberts 1988, pp. 26, 28.

[FOOTNOTERoberts198827-12] Roberts 1988, p. 27.

[FOOTNOTERoberts198821-13] Roberts 1988, p. 21.

[FOOTNOTERoberts1988224-14] Roberts 1988, p. 224.

[FOOTNOTERoberts1988241-15] Roberts 1988, p. 241.

[FOOTNOTERoberts1988247-16] Roberts 1988, p. 247.

[FOOTNOTERoberts1988386–387-17] Roberts 1988, pp. 386–387.

[FOOTNOTERoberts1988527-18] Roberts 1988, p. 527.

[FOOTNOTERoberts1988533–534-19] Roberts 1988, pp. 533–534.

[FOOTNOTERoberts1988821–822-20] Roberts 1988, pp. 821–822.