There were many forts around Utah and neighboring states.

I recently had a comment on another page surprised that one might have been 100 acres in size so I got wondering how big they were. It turns out there was a huge variety of sizes, a few I calculated were:

• North Ogden Fort was 6×6 blocks, 568 acres.
• Parowan’s was 3×3 blocks, 85 acres
• Pleasant Grove’s fort was 4×4 blocks, 74 acres
• Lehi’s fort was 4×4 blocks, 70 acres
• Cedar City’s was 63 acres
• Payson’s fort was 4×4 blocks, 61 acres
• Nephi’s was 3×3 blocks, 59 acres
• Manti had a few, the first was a quarter of a block, then upgraded to a block, then upgraded to 3×3 blocks, 58 acres
• Bingham Fort in Ogden was 45 acres
• Utah’s first fort (in SLC) was 42 acres
• American Fork’s was 37 acres
• Heber’s fort was 33 acres
• Moroni’s Fort was 13 acres
• Union Fort (Midvale) was 10 acres.
• Fort Deseret is still standing, at 6.3 acres
• Kamas had a fort that was 5.625 acres
• Mt Pleasant was 5.5 acres
• Fort Utah (Provo) was 5 acres.
• Draper’s fort was 4.29 acres
• Big Cottonwood Creek Fort was 4 acres.
• Wallsburg Fort was 3.67 acres
• Ephraim’s fort was 1.5 acres
• Salina Fort was 1.05 acres
• Lake Shore’s fort was 1 acre
• Box Elder was 0.68 acres
• Johnson Fort (Enoch) was 0.625 acres
• Las Vegas Fort was 0.51 acres
• Paragonah Fort was 0.25 acres.
• Cove Fort is about 0.25 acres.