Welcome to Fort Howard ...

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

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

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

While we don't have a date for the founding of Fort Howard, you might consider that their post office opened in 1854.

A typical abbreviation for Fort Howard: Ft. Howard

Time Zone: The area where Fort Howard was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Communities Also Named Fort Howard ...

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

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

Adding Fort Howard to Our Gazetteer ...

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Fort Howard was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Fort Howard post office opened in 1854.

We also found Fort Howard in the book titled List of Post Offices in the United States (1870).

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Brown County: www.co.brown.wi.us/

The official website for State of Wisconsin: https://www.wisconsin.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 Howard, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Wisconsin's counties, including Brown, 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/