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.