Fort Buchanan
Fort Buchanan was a US Army post founded in 1856 three miles southwest of present-day Sonoita in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, on the east slope of what is now called Hog Canyon.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: fort
- Description: former US Army post
- Also known as: “Fort Buchanan, Arizona”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sonoita.
Sonoita
Photo: The Old Pueblo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sonoita is a census-designated place in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States. The population was 803 at the 2020 census. The origin of the name of the CDP is the O'odham Ṣon ʼOidag, which may be best translated as "spring field".
Fort Buchanan
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In Other Languages
From Egyptian Arabic to Vietnamese—“Fort Buchanan” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “حصن بوكانان”
- French: “fort Buchanan”
- French: “Fort Buchanan”
- Urdu: “فورٹ بیوکینن، ایریزونا”
- Vietnamese: “Buchanan”
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