Do you know of Fort Clark ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fort Clark. 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 Clark.

We found mention of Fort Clark as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Kinney County, Texas.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1855 and closed  in 1873.

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 Clark ...

We found two communities that share the name Fort Clark.

Within Texas, the name Fort Clark is unique.

Beyond Texas, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • North Carolina
    • Dare County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Fort Clark [Dare County].
  • North Dakota
    • Oliver County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Fort Clark [Oliver County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fort Clark ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Fort Clark was listed as Fort Clark Courthouse.

More Orphans in  Kinney County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Kinney County.