Forty Fort, Pennsylvania

Forty Fort, Pennsylvania
Borough
Relief on the Borough Hall
Forty Fort, Pennsylvania
Coordinates: 41°17′0″N 75°52′24″W / 41.28333°N 75.87333°W / 41.28333; -75.87333Coordinates: 41°17′0″N 75°52′24″W / 41.28333°N 75.87333°W / 41.28333; -75.87333
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Luzerne
Settled	1778
Incorporated	1887
Government
• Type	Borough Council
Area
• Total	1.6 sq mi (4.1 km2)
• Land	1.3 sq mi (3.4 km2)
• Water	0.3 sq mi (0.7 km2)
Population (2010)
• Total	4,214
• Density	2,700/sq mi (1,000/km2)
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
Zip code	18704
Area code(s)	570

Forty Fort is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,214 at the 2010 census. Its neighbors are the boroughs of Kingston, Wyoming, and Swoyersville. The Wilkes-Barre Wyoming Valley Airport and the Susquehanna River dike are both located in the borough.

Forty Fort was named for a Revolutionary War-era fort that the town's original settlers built; there were forty of these settlers from Connecticut, so the town was later named Forty Fort.Forty Fort was prominent in the Pennamite–Yankee War and in the American Revolution. A large stone was placed at the end of Fort St. in 1900 by the Daughters of the American Revolution to mark the approximate location of the fort. In the vicinity of this fort occurred, in 1778, the Battle of Wyoming.

Forty Fort is home to perhaps the oldest building known in northeastern Pennsylvania, the Forty Fort Meetinghouse, located in the borough's cemetery. The meeting house was built in 1806–08. In late October 2005, Forty Fort's Wyoming Seminary Lower School launched a successful attempt to save the building from damage and preserve it as a recollection of past historic memories of Forty Fort. Forty Fort also hosts the historic Nathan Denison house. Denison served as colonel of the militia for the area during the Revolution.