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 Condé
  • Fort Armstrong
  • Fort Bibb
  • Fort Bowyer
  • Fort Carney
  • Fort Claiborne
  • Fort Condé, open to the public
  • Fort Crawford
  • Fort Dale
  • Fort Decatur
  • Fort Easley
  • Fort Gaines
  • Fort Glass
  • Fort Hampton
  • Fort Harker
  • Fort Hull
  • Fort Jackson, open to the public
  • Fort Landrum
  • Fort Leslie
  • Fort Likens
  • Fort Madison
  • Fort McClellan
  • Fort Montgomery[1]
  • Fort Morgan, open to the public
  • Fort Novosel, closed to the public
  • Fort Sinquefield
  • Fort Stoddert
  • Fort Strother
  • Fort Tombecbe, open to the public[2]
  • Fort Toulouse, open to the public
  • Fort Williams, destroyed by erosion

Alaska

Fort William H. Seward

Arizona

Fort Apache

Arkansas

Fort Smith

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Fort Trumbull

Delaware

Fort Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Fort Pulaski

Hawaii

Fort Ruger

Idaho

Fort Sherman

Illinois

Fort de Chartres

Indiana

Fort Wayne

Iowa

Fort Atkinson

Kansas

Fort Scott

Kentucky

Fort Harrod

Louisiana

Fort Proctor

Maine

Fort Popham
  • Fort Baldwin, open to the public
  • Fort Edgecomb, open to the public
  • Fort Foster, open to the public
  • Fort George, open to the public
  • Fort Gorges, open to the public
  • Fort Halifax, open to the public
  • Fort Kent, open to the public
  • Fort Knox, open to the public
  • Fort Levett, closed to the public
  • Fort Lyon, closed to the public
  • Fort McClary, open to the public
  • Fort McKinley, closed to the public
  • Fort O'Brien, open to the public
  • Fort Pentagouet
  • Fort Popham, open to the public
  • Fort Preble, open to the public
  • Fort Scammel, closed to the public
  • Fort Sullivan, open to the public
  • Fort Sumner, open to the public
  • Fort Williams, open to the public
  • Fort William Henry, open to the public

Maryland

Fort McHenry

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Fort Belle Fontaine

Montana

Nebraska

Fort Atkinson

Nevada

Fort Churchill

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

Fort Macon

North Dakota

Ohio

Fort Recovery

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Fort Mifflin

Puerto Rico

Rhode Island

Fort Greene

South Carolina

Fort Sumter

South Dakota

Fort Sisseton

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Virgin Islands (U.S.)

Washington

Washington, D.C.

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

See also

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References

Citations

  1. ^ Roberts 1988, p. 10.
  2. ^ Roberts 1988, pp. 3–4.
  3. ^ Roberts 1988, p. 527.
  4. ^ Roberts 1988, pp. 821–822.

Sources

  • 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.

Further reading

  • Lewis, Emanuel Raymond (1979). Seacoast Fortifications of the United States. Annapolis: Leeward Publications. ISBN 978-0-929521-11-4.
  • 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.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Forts in the United States.
  • List of all US coastal forts and batteries at the Coast Defense Study Group
  • 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