Maine
Aroostook
Town of Fort Kent

Fort Kent

Fort Kent is a small town in the region of along the USA border with . It is at the end of U.S. Highway 1.
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  • Type: Town with 4,070 residents
  • Description: town in Maine, USA
  • Also known as: “Fort Kent, Maine”, “Fort Kent, ME”, and “La Decharge*”
  • Postal code: 04743

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fort Kent and Northern Maine Medical Center.

Fort
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
, located at the confluence of the and Saint John rivers in the town of , Maine, United States, is the only surviving American fortification built during the border tensions with neighboring known as the Aroostook War.

Hospital
The is a located in the town of Fort Kent, . It serves most of , including more than ten small and medium-sized communities.

Museum
The is a historic house at 4 Dubé Street in Fort Kent, Maine. Built c. 1840, it is a rare surviving example of an Acadian log house, and the only one known to be near its original location.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Clair and Fort Kent Mills.

Village
is a former village in , , now part of .

Village
is an unincorporated village in the town of Fort Kent, , , United States. The community is located on Maine State Route 11 and the , south of the village of Fort Kent.

Fort Kent

Latitude
47.2559° or 47° 15′ 21″ north
Longitude
-68.5905° or 68° 35′ 26″ west
Population
4,070
Elevation
561 feet (171 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US FKT
Open location code
87VH7C45+9R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158842923
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4964627
Wiki­data ID
Q899695
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Fort Kent” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Fort Kent, Maine”
  • Albanian: “Fort Kent”
  • Arabic: “فورت كينت”
  • Basque: “Fort Kent”
  • Breton: “Fort Kent”
  • Bulgarian: “Форт Кент”
  • Catalan: “Fort Kent”
  • Chechen: “Форт-Кент”
  • Chinese: “肯特堡”
  • Dagbani: “Fort Kent”
  • Dutch: “Fort Kent”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فورت كينت”
  • Estonian: “Fort Kent”
  • French: “Fort Kent”
  • French: “Fort-Kent”
  • German: “Fort Kent”
  • Haitian: “Fort Kent, Maine”
  • Haitian: “Fort Kent”
  • Hungarian: “Fort Kent”
  • Italian: “Fort Kent”
  • Japanese: “フォートケント”
  • Kazakh: “Fort Kent”
  • Kazakh: “Форт Кент”
  • Kazakh: “فورت كەنت”
  • Kirghiz: “Форт Кент”
  • Mazanderani: “فورت کنت”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fort Kent”
  • Polish: “Fort Kent”
  • Russian: “Форт-Кент”
  • Serbian: “Форт Кент”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fort Kent, Maine”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fort Kent”
  • Spanish: “Fort Kent (Maine)”
  • Spanish: “Fort Kent”
  • Swedish: “Fort Kent, Maine”
  • Swedish: “Fort Kent”
  • Tatar: “Форт-Кент”
  • Turkish: “Fort Kent, Maine”
  • Turkish: “Fort Kent”
  • Ukrainian: “Форт-Кент”
  • Urdu: “فورٹ کینٹ، مینے”
  • Urdu: “فورٹ کینٹ”
  • Volapük: “Fort Kent”
  • Welsh: “Fort Kent, Maine”
  • Welsh: “Fort Kent”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Fort Kent”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.