Fort Concho
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Fort Concho Historic District
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| Location | 630 S. Oakes Street San Angelo, Texas, United States |
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| Coordinates | 31°27′10″N 100°25′45″W / 31.45278°N 100.42917°WCoordinates: 31°27′10″N 100°25′45″W / 31.45278°N 100.42917°W |
| Built | 1867 |
| NRHP Reference # | 66000823 |
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| Added to NRHP | October 15, 1966 |
| Designated NHLD | July 4, 1961 |
Fort Concho is a National Historic Landmark owned and operated since 1935 by the city of San Angelo, the seat of Tom Green County in West Texas. Situated on the North Concho River, near its confluence with the South and Middle Concho Rivers, the site selected for Fort Concho was strategic to the stabilization of the region, because of the location of no fewer than five major trails in the vicinity. Though the fort was surrounded by miles of flat, treeless prairie, it was considered to be “one of the most beautiful and best ordered posts in Texas."
Other forts in the frontier fort system were Forts Griffin, Richardson, Belknap, Chadbourne, , Davis, Bliss, McKavett, Clark, McIntosh, Inge, and Phantom Hill in Texas, and Fort Sill in Oklahoma. "Sub posts or intermediate stations" were also used, including Bothwick's Station on Salt Creek between Fort Richardson and Fort Belknap, Camp Wichita near Buffalo Springs between Fort Richardson and Red River Station, and Mountain Pass between Fort Concho and Fort Griffin.
Concho was established as a United States Army post in 1867, with five companies of the Fourth Cavalry under the command of Col. John P. Hatch, and named for the nearby Concho River. It replaced the earlier Fort Chadbourne in Bronte in Coke County north of San Angelo. Chadbourne was established in 1852 by elements of the 8th Infantry and named for Second Lieutenant Theodore Lincoln Chadbourne, who was killed in the Battle of Resaca de la Palma in the Mexican War. The post experienced a chronic water shortage, and was abandoned in 1867. Troops transferred to Fort Concho, but the military maintained a presence at Chadbourne until 1873. The Chadbourne ruins are open to the public, but no artifacts may be taken. The fort is a popular site for school field trips. The Fort Chadbourne Cemetery contains numerous poignant old markers. The oldest tombstone dates to 1877.
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