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Fort Dodge is a city in and the county seat of Webster County, Iowa, United States, [2] along the Des Moines River. The population was 24,871 in the 2020 census, a decrease from 25,136 in 2000. [3] Fort Dodge is a major commercial center for North Central and Northwest Iowa. It is located on U.S. Routes 20 and 169.
Fort Dodge was named for General Grenville M. Dodge.General Dodge wrote in his autobiography: [2] Fort Dodge was named after me, not as an honor, by a command that I was sent out there in the winter, after it was too late to furnish them lumber or anything for an encampment and they had to make dug-outs in the Bluffs for the purpose of wintering and the Colonel in command of the detachment ...
Fort Dodge Downtown Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Fort Dodge, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. [1] Additional documentation for the district was approved by the National Park Service on January 4, 2019. [2]
New buildings were constructed to expand services. A cemetery was established to inter residents who died and needed a place to be buried. As of 2010 approximately 400 veterans were buried in the Kansas Soldiers' Home Cemetery. In 2002 a new cemetery was established, the Kansas Veterans' Cemetery at Fort Dodge.
Webster County is a county in the U.S. state of Iowa.As of the 2020 census, the population was 36,999. [1] The county seat is Fort Dodge. [2] The county was established in January 1851, one of 43 counties established by a legislative package.
Wahkonsa township was named in honor of a young Indian chief of the name who frequently visited the neighboring city of Fort Dodge. The first settler in the present-day township was Mrs. Geo H. Rodgers, and the first sermon preached was by Reverend J. B. Montgomery in 1851. [2]
Human Statue of Liberty, created by Mole and Thomas using 18,000 officers and enlisted men at Camp Dodge near Des Moines, Iowa, 1918, during World War I. Camp Dodge is a military installation in the city of Johnston, Iowa. Centrally located near the capital of Iowa, it currently serves as the headquarters of the Iowa National Guard.
The Oak Hill Historic District, also known as East Fort Dodge, is a nationally recognized historic district located in Fort Dodge, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. [ 1 ]