History
Historic forts
Castillo de San Marcos, Fort Ross, Fort Sumter: fortresses from colonial times, the Civil War and the Wild West – many now museums or national historic sites.
- 443
- forts in this area
- 62
- states/provinces with entries
- 1539
- oldest built
By state
Alabama 9
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Fort Bowyer
Alaska 3
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Fort Liscum
Alberta 1
Arizona 6
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Fort Verde State Historic Park
Foto: The original uploader was Elf at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Arkansas 1
British Columbia 3
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Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site
Foto: Storeswallah at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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Fort Tongass
Foto: Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904 -- Photographer, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
California 16
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Fort Reading
Colorado 6
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Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Foto: unknown NPS photographer, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
Fort
Spanish Fort
Fort
Fort Morgan
Connecticut 4
Fort
Fort Good Hope
Delaware 5
Fort
Fort Casimir
Fort
Fort Delaware
Foto: Michael Swanda, U.S. Army Corps of Enginers, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
District of Columbia 12
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Fort Bayard
Foto: United States. Office Of National Capital Parks; Barnard, J. G. (John Gross); United States. Army. Corps Of Engineers, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
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Fort Greble
Foto: Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
Fort
Fort Prince George
Florida 16
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Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park
Foto: U.S. Department of Transportation, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
Fort
Fort Green
Fort
Fort Ward
Georgia 6
Hawaii 2
Idaho 3
Illinois 3
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Fort Crevecoeur
Foto: John Leonard Conger and William Edgar Hull, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
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Fort Johnson
Indiana 5
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Fort Miami
Iowa 1
Kansas 5
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Fort Simple
Fort
Camp on Pawnee Fork
Kentucky 1
Louisiana 14
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Fort De La Boulaye
Fort
Fort Livingston
Foto: U.S. National Park Service Photographer., Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
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Fort Beauregard
Maine 15
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Fort McClary
Foto: The original uploader was Decumanus at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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Fort Gorges
Foto: This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting histo, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
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Fort Preble
Foto: Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This image or media file contains material based on a work of a United States Department of the Interior employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work i, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
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Fort Popham
Foto: No machine-readable author provided. CommonsHelper2 Bot assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
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Fort Menaskoux
Manitoba 6
Fort
Fort Rouge
Fort
Fort Bourbon
Foto: http://www.robinsonlibrary.com/america/canada/northwest/verendrye.htm, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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Fort Paskoya
Maryland 8
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Fort Armistead
Massachusetts 11
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Fort Strong
Foto: Image likely taken by the U.S. Army (Signal Corps or Coast Artillery Corps)., Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
Michigan 11
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Fort Drummond
Foto: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
Minnesota 3
Mississippi 3
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Fort Rosalie
Foto: Credit: Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
Missouri 5
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Fort Orleans
Montana 5
Fort
Fort McKenzie
Fort
Fort Elizabeth Meagher
Nebraska 4
Nevada 3
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Fort McDermit
Foto: John Stanton – CC-BY-SA (see permission; all content licensed under CC-BY-SA), CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Fort
Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort
Foto: David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
New Brunswick 6
New Hampshire 3
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Fort Wentworth
New Jersey 3
New Mexico 13
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Fort Wingate
Foto: Elias Olcott Beaman / James Fennemore / John Karl Hillers, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
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Fort Bascom
Fort
Cantonment Burgwin
Fort
Fort Fillmore
Fort
Fort Thorn
Fort
Fort Lowell
New York 29
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Fort Amsterdam
Foto: Johannes Vingboons (cartographer), Jacques Cortelyou (surveyor), Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
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Fort Washington
Foto: Claude Joseph Sauthier Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor., Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
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Fort Dayton
Fort
Fort Conti
Fort
Casemate Fort, Whiting Quadrangle
Foto: JeffreyW75 at English Wikipedia, GFDL (Wikimedia Commons)
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Fort H. G. Wright
Foto: Adelard T. LeGere, Post Photographer for Fort H.G. Wright, on Fishers Island, NY, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
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Fort Toronto
Fort
Fort Brewerton
Fort
Fort Bull
Newfoundland and Labrador 7
North Carolina 8
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Fort Branch
Fort
North Carolina Baptist Assembly
Foto: The original uploader was Link5001 at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons)
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Fort Anderson
Foto: Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
North Dakota 5
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Fort Henry
Nova Scotia 6
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Fort St. Louis
Fort
Fort Sainte Anne
Nunavut 1
Ohio 7
Oklahoma 8
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Camp Nichols
Fort
Fort Arbuckle
Fort
Fort McCulloch
Ontario 14
Fort
Magasin Royal
Oregon 6
Fort
Fort William
Fort
Fort Lane
Foto: Capt. Andrew Jackson Smith, United States Army (see discussion of authorship at https://vimeo.com/45524467 ), Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
Pennsylvania 16
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Fort Pitt
Foto: Downtown_Pittsburgh_May_2008.jpg: Allie Caufield derivative work: GrapedApe (talk), CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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Fort Beversreede
Fort
Fort Ligonier
Foto: The original uploader was Mind meal at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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Fort Venango
Fort
Fort Allen
Quebec 15
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Fort Senneville
Foto: Illustrateur(s): A.J. Rice, Laprés & Lavergne, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
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Fort Dumoine
Rhode Island 7
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Fort Wolcott
Fort
Fort Adams
Foto: Pub by H. B. Settle, Newport, R.I. "Tichnor Quality Views" Made Only by Tichnor Bros., Inc., Boston, Mass., Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
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Fort Ninigret
Foto: The original uploader was Swampyank at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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Fort Greene
Saskatchewan 2
South Carolina 6
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Fort Moultrie
Foto: Dima Sergiyenko; Please attribute this image as the work of "DiscoverWithDima.", CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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Fort Mitchell
South Dakota 4
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Fort Randall
Fort
New Fort Pierre
Fort
Fort Bennett
Tennessee 10
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Fort Assumption
Foto: Louisiana and Mississippi routes of Broutin, de Verges, and Saucier, author unknown., Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
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Fort Loudoun
Foto: The original uploader was LMUBill at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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Fort Henry
Texas 16
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Fort Crockett
Foto: No machine-readable author provided. Carl Gusler assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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Fort Manhassett
US-PR 3
Utah 6
Vermont 2
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Fort Dummer
Foto: The original uploader was Nonenmac at English Wikipedia., Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
Virginia 18
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Fort Woodbury
Fort
"A" Fort and Battery Hill Redoubt-Camp Early
Foto: Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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Fort Tillinghast
Foto: Map by Engineer Bureau, U.S. War Department, Via Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
Washington 8
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Fort Nez Percés
Foto: Painter and provenance of this image are unknown., Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
West Virginia 3
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White Top
Foto: Brian M. Powell (user Bitmapped on en.wikipedia), CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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Fort Marrow
Wisconsin 4
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Fort Shelby
Wyoming 11
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Fort Fred Steele State Historic Site
Foto: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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Fort Caspar
Foto: The original uploader was Decumanus at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Good to know
- Many forts are National Park Service or Parks Canada sites: check opening hours and fees on their website first.
- On weekends there are often demonstrations in period costume – the events calendar is worth a look.
- Some forts sit on islands and can only be reached by ferry, such as Fort Sumter or Fort Jefferson.
Sources: Wikidata (CC0), Photos: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence per image) · Last checked on 19 September 2026