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General Smith had ordered Army topographical engineer Stephen H. Long (1784–1864) to find a suitable site on the Arkansas River for a fort. General Smith never visited the town or the forts that bore his name. A stockade was built and occupied from 1817 until 1822 by a small troop of regulars commanded by Major William Bradford.
Fort Smith is located in the South Slave Region (administrative) and Region 5, Northwest Territories (census division). The town was previously in the Fort Smith Region census division. Fort Smith is accessible all year long via the Fort Smith Highway. A winter road operates for several months to connect Fort Smith to Fort Chipewyan and from ...
The fort was the first site of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, which had jurisdiction over western Arkansas and all of Indian Territory. It began operations in 1875 with the appointment of Isaac C. Parker as the first federal district judge here. The town of Fort Smith, Arkansas developed around the fort.
The Fort Smith Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is a five-county area including three Arkansas counties and two Oklahoma counties, and anchored by the city of Fort Smith, Arkansas. The total MSA population in 2000 was 273,170 people, estimated by the Bureau to have grown to 289,693 people by 2007. [2]
Fort Smith: World War II Home Front Efforts in Arkansas, MPS; second set of addresses represents a boundary increase April 6, 2014 8: Oscar Chambers House: Oscar Chambers House: June 7, 2016 : 3200 S. Dallas St. Fort Smith: 9
"There's so much to the history of Fort Smith: the city itself, but then also how it relates to Indian territory and all of that history," Gray said. This historic site is known for a number of ...
The town of Fort Smith is about 1,300 miles (2,100 kilometers) northeast of Vancouver, British Columbia near the border between Alberta and the Northwest Territories.
Fort Smith is a census-designated place (CDP) in Big Horn County, Montana, United States. The population was 161 at the 2010 census. [3] The town is named for the former Fort C.F. Smith. The North District of Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area is accessed at Fort Smith. The Crow name for this town is Annu'ucheepe, “Mouth of the canyon ...