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Welcome to Fort Steele ...

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

We've added Fort Steele to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Fort Steele, please Contact Us.

Fort Steele would have been located within present day Carbon County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Fort Steele, you might get a feel for it by knowing that the earliest mention that we've found (so far) was in a book dated 1895.

A typical abbreviation for Fort Steele: Ft. Steele

While the community is gone, the present day location for Fort Steele is 6,500 feet [1,981 m] above sea level.<3> In other words, the elevation of Fort Steele is about 1¼ mile [or ~2 km] above sea level.

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

The Area Code where Fort Steele was located: 307

Communities Also Named Fort Steele ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Fort Steele - it's located in British Columbia.

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

Communities near Fort Steele ...

We have created a list of 8 communities that are near Fort Steele.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Fort Steele. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Fort Steele.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Fort Steele. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Fort Steele.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Fort Steele. See our Newspapers Page for Fort Steele.

Adding Fort Steele to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Fort Steele in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Fort Steele was in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

We also found Fort Steele on a map titled Map of the Lincoln Highway (1915-1916).

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

The official website for State of Wyoming: https://www.wyo.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 Steele, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Wyoming's counties, including Carbon, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Fort Steele - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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