Fort Scott

General Winfield Scott, former General-in-Chief of the U.S. Army, was the namesake for five places named Fort Scott:

• Fort Scott, Kansas, a city that grew up around a military fort of the same name
  • Fort Scott National Historic Site
• Fort Scott (Arlington, Virginia), a small fortification in Arlington, Virginia, built to defend Washington during the American Civil War
• Fort Winfield Scott, a coast artillery post created within the Presidio of San Francisco in 1912
• Fort Point, San Francisco, renamed Fort Winfield Scott in 1882 but reverted to the original name before the establishment of the coast artillery post
• Fort Scott (Plattsburgh, New York), one of three American forts laid out by Major Joseph Totten prior to the 1814 Battle of Plattsburgh