Fort Lewis
Fort Lewis is a United States Army base located 9.1 miles south-southwest of Tacoma, Washington. Fort Lewis was merged with McChord Air Force Base on February 1, 2010, to form Joint Base Lewis–McChord.- Type: Town with 14,100 residents
- Description: military facility in Pierce County, Washington, United States
- Also known as: “Fort Lewis CDP”, “Fort Lewis, WA”, “Fort Lewis, Washington”, “Joint Base Lewis McChord”, “Joint Base Lewis-McChord”, and “Lewis McChord”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Madigan Army Medical Center and Gray AAF.
Madigan Army Medical Center
Hospital
Gray AAF
Aerodrome
Gray Army Airfield, also known as Gray AAF, is a military airfield located within the Fort Lewis entity of Joint Base Lewis–McChord near Tacoma, in Pierce County, Washington, United States. Gray AAF is situated 2½ miles southwest of Fort Lewis.
Thornewood
Guest house
Places in the Area
Nearby places include DuPont and Steilacoom.
DuPont
Town
DuPont is a city in Pierce County, Washington, United States. The population was 10,151 at the 2020 census. Originally a company town, the city is named after the DuPont chemical company which operated an explosives manufacturing plant in the area from 1909 to 1975. DuPont is situated 4 miles west of Fort Lewis.
Steilacoom
Steilacoom, a small town of 6,400 people on the southern Puget Sound, is the oldest incorporated town in Washington state. It has 4 buildings and sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including the oldest Catholic church in the state and the first Protestant church north of the Columbia River.Lakewood
Town
Fort Lewis
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States, military base, locality, and military installation
- Location: Pierce, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
47.10869° or 47° 6′ 31″ north
Longitude
-122.55498° or 122° 33′ 18″ west
Population
14,100
Elevation
276 feet (84 metres)
Abbreviation
“JBLM”
United Nations Location Code
US YLE
Open location code
84VV4C5W+F2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=military
OpenStreetMap feature
military=base
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Fort Lewis” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فورت لويس، واشنطن”
- Catalan: “Fort Lewis, WA”
- Catalan: “Fort Lewis, Washington”
- Catalan: “Fort Lewis”
- Chinese: “劉易斯堡”
- Chinese: “路易斯堡”
- Dutch: “Fort Lewis”
- Esperanto: “Fort Lewis”
- Esperanto: “fuorto Lewis”
- Esperanto: “Fuorto Lewis”
- French: “Fort Lewis”
- French: “McChord Air Force Base”
- German: “Fort Lewis”
- Gilaki: “فؤرت لۊئيس (واشينگتن)”
- Gilaki: “فؤرت لۊئيس”
- Hebrew: “בסיס פורט לואיס”
- Hungarian: “Fort Lewis”
- Irish: “Fort Lewis”
- Italian: “Fort Lewis”
- Japanese: “フォート・ルイス”
- Japanese: “ルイス駐屯地”
- Korean: “포트 루이스”
- Ladin: “Fort Lewis”
- Norwegian: “McChord Air Force Base”
- Persian: “فورت لوئیس”
- Polish: “Fort Lewis”
- Russian: “Джоинт Бейс Льюис Маккорд”
- Russian: “Форт-Льюис”
- Serbian: “Форт Луис”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fort Lewis, Washington”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fort Lewis”
- Spanish: “Base de la Fuerza Aérea McChord”
- Spanish: “Fort Lewis (Washington)”
- Spanish: “Fort Lewis”
- Ukrainian: “Форт Льюїс”
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