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Fort Scott National Cemetery

Historic place

Fort Scott National Cemetery is a historic place in Bourbon County, Kansas, listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 1999-07-15.

Place facts

Category
Historic place
Resource type
Site
State
Kansas (KS)
County
Bourbon County
NRHP reference number
99000835
Coordinates
37.82167, -94.69359
Listed on the National Register
1999-07-15
City
Fort Scott

Location

Published coordinates: 37.82167, -94.69359. This point is calculated to fall on the mapped boundary below. It marks the resource, and it is not the centre or an address.

Listing record

Additional details recorded by the National Park Service in the National Register listing for this resource. Every value below is published by the authority; none is written, inferred or estimated here.

Areas of significance
Architecture, Military
Level of significance
National
Acreage recorded
10.5 acres

Official documentation

The National Park Service publishes the official nomination document for this listing. It is linked here and is not reproduced, hosted or summarized on this site. The document was observed to be available on 2026-08-21.

National Register nomination document (PDF, opens on the National Park Service site)

Sources

Every fact on this page comes from the registered datasets below, cited per claim and carried through an independently verified content release.