Fort Wiki

[Couvi]

Fort Wiki

This site is still under construction, but is a gallant effort none-the-less.

http://fortwiki.com/Fort_Wiki

[Pat Holscher]

Fort Wiki

This site is still under construction, but is a gallant effort none-the-less.

http://fortwiki.com/Fort_Wiki

It is indeed.

You'll see that if you look around at at least the Wyoming entries, a few link back to posts on this forum.

[rayarthart]

I'm surprised that Jackson Barracks in New Orleans didn't make the Ft. Wiki list. Jackson Barracks is still open.

[Couvi]

I'm surprised that Jackson Barracks in New Orleans didn't make the Ft. Wiki list. Jackson Barracks is still open.

It did: http://fortwiki.com/Jackson_Barracks

I am surpised Camp Plauche didn't make it. http://old-new-orleans.com/NO_Camp_Plauche Note military horse and mule connection.

[selewis]

Also missing are Camp Williams National Guard artillery range in Utah county and Fort Buena Ventura at the mouth of Ogden Canyon on the Weber River. The latter site is only that. a park with no ruins that I know of, but Camp Williams is alive and well.

[Pat Holscher]

Also missing are Camp Williams National Guard artillery range in Utah county and Fort Buena Ventura at the mouth of Ogden Canyon on the Weber River. The latter site is only that. a park with no ruins that I know of, but Camp Williams is alive and well.

My guess that a large number of forts are missing, in part because it's a volunteer effort like Wikipedia.

Something that I think is hard for us to appreciate now is the shear number of frontier posts there were. Some became very permanent and existed for decades, some still existing, but others were just small temporarily establishments.

In the county I live in there were three, and maybe four, frontier Army posts all operating in the 1860 to 1865 time frame. The location of one of those is now lost, but is somewhere within several hundred yards of my house. Only one, however, is typically thought of, as it was the most significant and long lasting. Even that one went through perpetual reconstruction while it was open, and its current form only reflects the reconstruction to the 1865 layout, not its largest. It was originally a temporary camp by the Topographical Engineers. Another camp nearly as old is being built over right now, so it's memory, to the extent it exists, will be largely lost.

[Couvi]

A lot of these posts were little one-company posts that saw a couple of years of service before abandonment.

Fort Sill had Camp Augur, three different iterations of Camp Radziminski, Cantonment, and Camp, later Fort, Elliot. These extended from the Red River to the South to the Texas Panhandle in the north. Some of these were manned during the spring and summer and abandoned through the winter. Camp Augur had a substantial corral, but the troops lived in tentage and patrolled a certain radius around this little post.

[browerpatch]

Here is another interesting effort:

http://moultrie.battlefieldsinmotion.com/index.html

My apologies if it has been previously posted.