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This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fort Custer. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Fort Custer.

Our sources for Fort Custer (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Fort Custer. We can't give a location other than its somewhere in Montana

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Fort Custer ...

We found one communities that share the name Fort Custer.

Within Montana, the name Fort Custer is unique.

Beyond Montana, there is another community also named Fort Custer in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Michigan
    • Calhoun County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Fort Custer [Calhoun County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fort Custer ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Fort Custer:

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Fort Custer - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned