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Housing Units (2000): 493
Land area (2000): 20.910619 sq. miles (54.158252 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 20.910619 sq. miles (54.158252 sq. km)
FIPS code: 28665
Located within: Wyoming (WY), FIPS 56
Location: 42.999137 N, 108.911782 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 82514
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Headwords:
Fort Washakie
Wikipedia
Fort Washakie was a U.S Army fort in what is now the U.S. state of Wyoming. The fort was established in 1869 and named Camp Augur after General Christopher C. Augur, commander of the Department of the Platte. In 1870 the camp was renamed Camp Brown in honor of Captain Frederick H. Brown who was killed in the Fetterman Massacre in 1866. it was renamed again in 1878 after Chief Washakie of the Shoshone tribe making the fort the only U.S military outpost named after a Native American. The fort remained a military outpost until 1909 when it was decommissioned and turned over to the Shoshone Indian Agency. The graves of Washakie and Lewis and Clark Expedition guide Sacajawea are located on the grounds of the fort. The site lies within the present-day Wind River Indian Reservation.