Welcome to Fort Wallace ...
So far, we found very little information about Fort Wallace. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Fort Wallace to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Fort Wallace - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Fort Wallace, please Contact Us.
While we don't have the exact location of Fort Wallace , we believe that it would have been located within present day Wallace County<2>.
While we don't have a date for the founding of Fort Wallace, you might get a feel for it by knowing that during our research the earliest mention that we found (so far) was on a map dated 1911.
If Fort Wallace still existed, it would have been in the (785) area code.
Adding Fort Wallace to Our Gazetteer ...
As we work on our Gazetteer, we occasionally find mention of a community that is new to us. When we find such a community, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope of adding more information in the future.
The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Fort Wallace was on a map titled Map of Kansas (from Rand McNally, 1911).
For more details, see References and Mentions for Fort Wallace.
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for State of Kansas: https://portal.kansas.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 Wallace, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | If you're interested in how the shape of Kansas' counties, including Wallace, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |