United States · 19th century
Fort Reno ranks #4,655 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #89 of the 110 mapped in United States. Founded 1865, it is older than 6% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 705 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. See how United States compares in the castle statistics.
Fort Reno also known as Fort Connor or Old Fort Reno, was a wooden fort established on August 15, 1865, by the United States Army in Dakota Territory in present-day Johnson County, Wyoming. The fort was built to protect travelers on the Bozeman Trail from Native American tribes.
Today, the parade ground and surrounding area has generally returned to a natural prairie sod cover. The site, approximately 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Sussex, Wyoming, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 28, 1970. There is a large stone monument and several interpretive signs marking the site that are accessible by a gravel road.
Text adapted from “Fort Reno (Wyoming)” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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