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Fort Kent (French: Fort-Kent) is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States, situated at the confluence of the Fish River and the Saint John River, on the border with New Brunswick, Canada. The population was 4,067 in the 2020 census . [ 3 ]
Fort Kent stands on a slight rise overlooking the Saint John River, just west of the mouth of the Fish River. The Saint John is in this area part of the Canada–United States border, and the region on both sides of the river was until the 1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty territory disputed by both the United States and the United Kingdom, of which New Brunswick was then a colonial province.
The Fort Kent CDP is located at (47.254945, −68.585421), [3] along the Saint John River, which forms the northern border of the town as well as the Canada–United States border The northern terminus of U.S. Route 1 is near the center of the CDP, at the bridge across the Saint John River into Clair , New Brunswick.
Fort Kent (CDP), Maine, the main village in the town; Fort Kent (fort), a historic site in the town This page was last edited on 14 March 2022, at 02:57 (UTC). ...
The Jean-Baptiste Daigle House is a historic house at 4 Dubé Street in Fort Kent, Maine. Built c. 1840, it is a rare surviving example of an Acadian log house, and the only one known to be near its original location. It was built by one of a father-son pair, each named Jean-Baptiste Daigle, and moved a short distance about 20 years after its ...
The Fort Kent Railroad Station is located at the northeast corner of Main and Market Streets (United States Route 1 and Maine State Route 161 respectively), between Market Street to the west and the railroad track to the east. It is a long rectangular single-story wood frame structure with a gable-on-hip roof, clapboard siding, and a concrete ...
Fort Kent Mills is an unincorporated village in the town of Fort Kent, Aroostook County, Maine, United States. The community is located on Maine State Route 11 and the Fish River, south of the village of Fort Kent. Fort Kent Mills has a post office, with ZIP code 04744, which opened on April 11, 1906. [2] [3]
Its southern terminus is at US 1 and SR 161 south of downtown. Its northern terminus is at SR 161 where it meets the northern end of the bypass. SR 161B is signed as a suffixed route, lacking the typical "Business" banner of Maine's other business routes. SR 161B begins at the intersection of Fort Street and US 1 southeast of the city's downtown.