United States · 19th century
Fort Robinson ranks #2,467 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #51 of the 110 mapped in United States. Founded 1874, it is older than 5% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 705 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 5,530 times in the last 60 days, more than 88% of the atlas. See how United States compares in the castle statistics.
Fort Robinson is a former U.S. Army fort and now a major feature of Fort Robinson State Park, a 22,000-acre (8,900 ha) public recreation and historic preservation area located 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Crawford on U.S. Route 20 in the Pine Ridge region of northwest Nebraska.
The fort was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960 and is part of the Fort Robinson and Red Cloud Agency historic district. This includes Fort Robinson and the site of the second Red Cloud Agency (about 1.5 mi (2.4 km) to the east). The district also includes the Camp Canby site and the 1886 Percy Homestead. The fort is managed by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, with some individual buildings operated by the Nebraska State Historical Society and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Text adapted from “Fort Robinson” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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