FORT SCOTT

city, seat of Bourbon county, southeastern Kansas, U.S., on the Marmaton River near the Missouri border. The community grew up around a military outpost (1842) named for General Winfield Scott. After removal of the garrison (1855), Fort Scott was the scene of clashes between proslavery and antislavery factions. Some of the buildings erected during the American Civil War (186165), when the fort was reactivated, remain. Fort Scott is now a railroad junction and a shipping point in a diversified farming area. Work clothes, cement, aluminum products, business forms, and calendars are made. Fort Scott Community College was established in 1919. Inc. 1860. Pop. (1990) 8,362.