Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 11168
Land area (2000): 14.562009 sq. miles (37.715429 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.276884 sq. miles (0.717125 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 14.838893 sq. miles (38.432554 sq. km)
FIPS code: 28515
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 42.506803 N, 94.180271 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50501
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Fort Dodge
Wikipedia
The site of Fort Dodge in the U.S. state of Kansas was originally an old campground for wagons traveling along the Santa Fe Trail, just west of the western junction of the Wet and Dry Routes and near the middle or Cimarron Cutoff. On March 23, 1865, Major General Grenville M. Dodge, who commanded the 11th and 16th Kansas Cavalry Regiments, wrote to Colonel James Hobart Ford to propose establishing a new military post west of Fort Larned. On orders of Col. Ford, Captain Henry Pearce, with Company C, Eleventh Cavalry Regiment, and Company F, Second U.S. Volunteer Infantry, from Fort Larned, occupied and established Fort Dodge on April 10, 1865.
Fort Dodge may refer to:
- Fort Dodge, Iowa
- Fort Dodge, Kansas
- Fort Dodge (US Army Post)
Usage examples of "fort dodge".
The Pan Handle of Texas, the old Chisholm Trail along which were driven the great cattle herds northward, Fort Dodge, where the cowboys conflicted with the card-sharps -- these hard places had left their marks on Carmichael.
Dodge, commander of the post at Fort Dodge and one of the founders of the place.
No cattle have been sold that we know of, beyond a possibility of some slaughtered beef at Fort Dodge.
It's northwest of Des Moines and southwest of Fort Dodge, somewhere off U.
Tell 'em I died decent, too, will you--died like paw was always a-tellin' me my granddad died, fightin' Injuns 'round Fort Dodge somewheres.
Theres a Lieutenant Custer at Fort Dodge leading the Seventh Cavalry.