Fort Rice
Fort Rice was a frontier military fort in the 19th century named for American Civil War General James Clay Rice in what was then Dakota Territory and what is now North Dakota. The 50th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment became the garrison in October 1865.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: 19th-century frontier military fort in what is now North Dakota
- Also known as: “Gwyther” and “Psíŋ Otȟúŋwahe”
Fort Rice
- Categories: fort and locality
- Location: Unorganized Territory of East Morton, Morton, North Dakota, Great Plains, United States, North America
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Latitude
46.52611° or 46° 31′ 34″ northLongitude
-100.58429° or 100° 35′ 3″ westElevation
1,634 feet (498 metres)Open location code
85RXGCG8+C7OpenStreetMap ID
node 151527745OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to Western Frisian—“Fort Rice” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Fort Rice”
- Bavarian: “Psíŋ Otȟúŋwahe”
- Cebuano: “Fort Rice Historical Site”
- Chinese: “赖斯堡”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حصن رايس”
- French: “fort Rice”
- French: “Fort Rice”
- French: “Psíŋ Otȟúŋwahe”
- German: “Fort Rice”
- German: “Psíŋ Otȟúŋwahe”
- Western Frisian: “Fort Rice”
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