Time period

Installation

1819-1820

Cantonment Missouri

1822

Fort Atkinson (near present site of Fort Calhoun, a town in Washington County, NE)
Fort Atkinson Web Site by the Friends of Fort Atkinson
Fort Atkinson (1819 - 1827), Plan of - from "History and Stories of Nebraska", 1913 by A.E. Sheldon

1844-47

Fort Kearney, Old or First (near Nebraska City, Otoe County, NE)
Image - Old Fort Kearney Blockhouse
Image - Old earthworks at Fort Kearney, 1907
both images from "History and Stories of Nebraska" by A.E. Sheldon, 1913

1847-8

Fort Childs (later renamed: "New" Fort Kearny) Kearney County

1848

Fort Kearney (Grand Island, Hall County, NE)
Fort Kearney State Historical Park

Fort Laramie (Nebraska Territory - now in Wyoming)
Image - Fort Laramie in 1848 from "History and Stories of Nebraska", 1913, by A.E. Sheldon

1863

Fort McKean (next known as "Post at Cottonwood Springs; became Fort McPherson in 1866)

1864

Fort Mitchell

1866

Fort Niobrara, Cherry County

1866

Fort Sidney (Cheyenne County) - From 1890 GAZETTEER - Cheyenne County, Sidney
"Fort Sidney, a United States military post, occupying 30 acres of land, is located near here. Five companies of troops occupy the fort at present, but the government contemplates its abandonment as a military post in the near future."

1866

Fort McPherson (south of Maxwell, NE) - In 1873 became National Cemetery - see below

1866

Camp Sheridan (then in Sioux County, now in Sheridan County) 1876 map

1870

Omaha Barracks, 3 mi N of Omaha (previously known as Sherman Barracks)

1874 - 1881

Fort Sheridan in Sheridan County, on Beaver Creek near the site that had earlier been the "Spotted Tail" Indian Agency (Brule Sioux). See 1876 map "Camp Sheridan"

1874

Fort Hartsuff (near Elyria, Valley County, NE)

1874

Fort Robinson, Sioux Co. (near Crawford, DawesCounty, NE)
Image from "History and Stories of Nebraska by A.E. Sheldon, 1913