Welcome to Fort Meade ...

So far, we found very little information about Fort Meade. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Fort Meade to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Fort Meade - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Fort Meade, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Fort Meade , we believe that it would have been located within present day Meade County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Fort Meade, you might consider that their post office opened in 1879.

A typical abbreviation for Fort Meade: Ft. Meade

Time Zone: The area where Fort Meade was located is in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time

The location where Fort Meade once stood is in the (605) area code.

Communities Also Named Fort Meade ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 2 communities that are also named Fort Meade - they are located in Florida and Maryland.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Fort Meade.

Adding Fort Meade to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Fort Meade in the FIPS-55 file. For more information, see the Referenced FIPS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Fort Meade was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Fort Meade post office opened in 1879.

We also found Fort Meade in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Fort Meade.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Meade County: www.meadecounty.org/

The official website for State of South Dakota: sd.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Fort Meade, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of South Dakota's counties, including Meade, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/