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The officers' quarters. National Park Service.
The site
Fort Scott National Historic Site is near the Kansas–Missouri border, about 145 km (90 mi) south of Kansas City, in Bourbon County, Kansas.
- Authorized: October 19, 1978.
- Size: about 7 hectares (17 acres).
- The fort: a U.S. Army post founded in 1842 and named for General-in-Chief Winfield Scott.
| Period | What happened |
|---|---|
| 1842–1853 | The army guarded the "Permanent Indian Frontier." Its soldiers fought in the U.S.-Mexican War (1846–1848), protected the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails, surveyed unmapped country, and kept the peace with the tribes of the Great Plains. The post closed in 1853, when westward expansion made the idea of a permanent Indian frontier obsolete. |
| Late 1850s | The site saw the violence of Bleeding Kansas — the struggle over slavery in Kansas Territory that helped ignite the Civil War. |
| Civil War | The town was a command post for a diverse Union infantry, with many Native American and African American soldiers — among them the First Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry. |
| Later | African American schools opened on the site; their students included George Washington Carver and Gordon Parks. |
The rocks beneath it
The site sits in the Central Lowland physiographic province. Its bedrock is Pennsylvanian sedimentary rock:
| Unit | Where | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Scott Limestone | under most of the site | dense, fossil-rich limestone with a little shale |
| Cabaniss Formation (below it) | small areas in the northwest and south | a more varied mix of limestone, sandstone, shale (mudstone) and notable coal beds |
| Alluvium and stream terrace deposits | the southeast corner | young, Quaternary surface deposits |
Named for the fort: the Fort Scott Limestone takes its name from Fort Scott, but its type locality — the place that defines it — is a cement plant quarry just northeast of the site, in NE/4 section 19, T. 25 S., R. 25 E., Bourbon County (Jewett 1941).
The parade ground. National Park Service.
Maps, reports and soils
The Park Service's Geologic Resources Inventory makes digital geologic maps and reports for more than 270 natural resource parks. Its products for Fort Scott — scoping summaries, digital geologic maps, reports and posters — are on the NPS DataStore. A completed Soil Resources Inventory for the site is there too (saved search).
More: Fort Scott — natural features and ecosystems · NPS Geodiversity Atlas.
Sources
Based on "NPS Geodiversity Atlas—Fort Scott National Historic Site, Kansas," National Park Service; a work of the United States government in the public domain.
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