In 2003, fair visitors and animal exhibitors at the Fort Bend County Fair in Texas became ill with E. coli O157: H7 infections.

An outbreak investigation led to the determination that 25 people had become ill with E. coli infections after attending the Fort Bend County Fair ; seven people were laboratory-confirmed with E. coli, and 5 developed HUS or TTP ( Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura ).

Five teams joined the American Association: Pensacola, Shreveport, Fort Worth, Coastal Bend and El Paso ; and one joined the United League, San Angelo.

* Fort Bend County ( northeast )

* Fort Bend County ( south )

* 1882 New York, Texas and Mexican Railway provides the first cross-country route to Rosenberg Junction in Fort Bend County.

Marfa became the headquarters for the Big Bend Military District, and in 1917 the Army established Camp Marfa, later called Fort D. A. Russell, at Marfa to protect the border.

Construction of Texas State Highway 290 linking Fort Stockton to Big Bend National Park gave a boost to the tourism dollar.

Since the 1970s Fort Bend County has been one of the fastest-growing counties in the United States.

The fort was called " Fort Bend " since it was built in the bend of the Brazos River.

Fort Bend County was created from Austin, Harris, and Brazoria Counties in 1838.

In April 2009, as part of a settlement with the United States Department of Justice, Fort Bend County agreed to increase assistance to Spanish-speaking voters in elections held in the county.

Fort Bend County was the site of the Jaybird-Woodpecker War.

In the middle 1950s, Fort Bend County and neighboring Galveston County were plagued by organized crime, with its brothels and illegal casinos.

A crusading newspaper editor, Clymer Wright of the then Fort Bend Reporter, joined with state officials and the Texas Rangers to rid the area of such corruption.

Wright soon sold his paper, now known as the Fort Bend Herald and Texas Coaster.

In 2006 Fort Bend county had a population of 493, 187.

As of 2002, the largest two cities within Fort Bend County were Missouri City and Sugar Land, with portions of Houston combining to make up the county's third largest " city ".

In that year, 38, 000 residents of the City of Houston lived in Fort Bend County.

As of 2006 Fort Bend County is the wealthiest county in Texas and the 24th wealthiest in the US with a median household income of $ 75, 202 ( In 2006 Inflation-Adjusted Dollars ), having surpassed Collin and Rockwall counties ( Dallas suburbs ) since the 2000 census.

However, the Council for Community and Economic Research ranked Fort Bend County as America's 3rd wealthiest county when the local cost of living was factored into the equation with median household income.

Fort Bend County, along with other Texas counties, has one of the nation's highest property tax rates.

Fort Bend County also ranked in the top 100 for amount of property taxes paid and for percentage of taxes of income.

Since the 1970s Fort Bend County has been attracting people from all types of racial and ethnic backgrounds and according to a 2001 Claritas study, it was the fifth most diverse county in the United States among counties of 100, 000 + population.

Rep. James Cotten of Weatherford insisted that a water development bill passed by the Texas House of Representatives was an effort by big cities like Dallas and Fort Worth to cover up places like Paradise, a Wise County hamlet of 250 people.

He alternated barbering and fiddling even when he moved to Fort Worth after leaving Hall County in 1929.

The only other location where this occurs is Fort Erie, Ontario, lying south of several cities in Niagara County, New York.

Fort Collins is a Home Rule Municipality situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, and is the county seat and most populous city of Larimer County, Colorado, United States.

Paris, Texas is a city located northeast of the Dallas – Fort Worth Metroplex in Lamar County, Texas, in the United States.

* Fort Mifflin, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

* Fort Mecoponacka ( 1641 )-located in Chester as a defense for the settlement then known as Finlandia, near Upland, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

* Mary I of England establishes the Fort of Maryborough, in what is now Portlaoise, County Laois, Ireland.

Location shooting took place at Big Sur Beach and at the Mission San Antonio de Padua near Fort Hunter Liggett in Monterey County.

Fort Montgomery was located at the confluence of Popolopen Creek with the Hudson River near Bear Mountain in Orange County, New York.

The uses of these islands vary: Davids ' Island, the former location of the U. S. Army ’ s Fort Slocum, is currently unoccupied but is slated for use as passive parkland ; Glen Island is a County park for passive and active recreation ; Huckleberry Island is largely undeveloped and has one of the largest rookeries for some shore bird species in western Long Island Sound ; Columbia Island was the former site of CBS television broadcast antennas and is currently unoccupied ; Echo Island is used by a private yacht club ; Execution Rocks is the site of a 19th century lighthouse listed on the National Register of Historic Places ; Pea Island is owned by Huguenot Yacht Club but remains undeveloped ; Goose Island is undeveloped ; Clifford, Harrison and Tank Islands are part of a nature preserve and city park ; and Oak and Pine Islands are used as private residences.

In the mid-18th century, Sir William Johnson, founder of Fort Johnson in Montgomery County and of Johnstown, arrived in the area that would become Fulton County.

One of the prominent sites in the County is the Old Stone Fort, which was a fort used during the Revolution and the Civil War as an armory.

* Fort Jennings Local School District, Putnam County, Ohio

The Diocese of Fort Wayne and Lutheran Schools of Indiana both operate in Adams County as well.

* Springfield, Limestone County, Texas, former town and county seat, now part of Fort Parker State Park

Fort Lauderdale is about a four-hour drive from Marion County.

Russian colonization of the Americas reached its southernmost point with the 1812 establishment of Fort Ross ( krepost ' rus ), an agricultural, scientific, and fur-trading settlement located in present-day Sonoma County, California.

Kenosha, Madison, Rockford, Springfield, Waterloo, and Wausau lost teams during this decade while Battle Creek, Dayton, Fort Wayne, Grand Rapids ( West Michigan ), Kane County, and Lansing gained teams.

The area that became Duval County was home to the 16th-century French colony of Fort Caroline, and saw increased European settlement in the 18th century with the establishment of Cowford, later renamed Jacksonville.

Around 1840, Fort DeSoto was established in present-day Hernando County in the northeast edge of present-day Brooksville to protect settlers in the area from Native Americans.

* Fort Noel ( 1839 – 1842 ), south of Lamont on the Aucilla River, six miles ( 10 km ) northwest of Fort Pleasant in Taylor County.