United States · 19th century
Fort Bridger ranks #2,322 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #48 of the 110 mapped in United States. Founded 1842, it is older than 9% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 705 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 7,939 times in the last 60 days, more than 92% of the atlas. See how United States compares in the castle statistics.
Fort Bridger was originally a 19th-century fur trading outpost established in 1842, on Blacks Fork of the Green River, in what is now Uinta County, Wyoming, United States and was then part of Mexico. It became a vital resupply point for wagon trains on the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails. The US Army established a military post here in 1858 during the Utah War, until it was finally closed in 1890. A small town, Fort Bridger, Wyoming, remains near the fort and takes its name from it.
Text adapted from “Fort Bridger” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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