Editing Fort Wingate (section)

{{Short description|Fort near Gallup, New Mexico}}
{{Use American English|date = April 2019}}
{{Use mdy dates|date = April 2019}}
{{Infobox military installation
| name=Fort Wingate
| partof=
| location= [[McKinley County, New Mexico|McKinley County]], near [[Gallup, New Mexico]]
| coordinates = {{coord|35.112466|-107.882652|type:city|format=dms}}
| image= (144)Fort Wingate, New Mexico (shows the fort and houses), 1871 - 1878 - NARA - 517785.tif
| image_size= 300px
| caption=Fort Wingate in the 1870s
| type=
| height=
| ownership=
| controlledby={{flag|New Mexico}}
| condition= ammunition depot, storage facility
| built=1862
| builder= {{flag|United States|1861}}
| used=1862 - 1993
| materials=
| demolished=
| battles=[[Apache Wars]]<br/>[[Navajo Wars]]
| events=
| past_commanders=[[Kit Carson]]<br/>[[William Redwood Price]]
| garrison=[[Navajo Scouts]]<br/>[[Apache Scouts]]<br/>[[4th Cavalry Regiment (United States)|4th Cavalry]]<br />[[8th Cavalry Regiment (United States)|8th Cavalry]]<br/>[[9th Cavalry Regiment (United States)|9th Cavalry]] and [[13th Infantry Regiment (United States)|13th Infantry]]<br/>[[15th Infantry Regiment (United States)|15th Infantry]]
| occupants=[[United States Army]]
}}
{{Infobox NRHP
  | name = Fort Wingate Historic District
  | nrhp_type = hd  |  nocat = yes
  | designated_other1 = New Mexico
  | designated_other1_date = August 22, 1975
  | designated_other1_number = [https://web.archive.org/web/20141110122215/http://www.nmhistoricpreservation.org/assets/files/registers/2012%20Report_%20Section%203_%20Arranged%20by%20Number.pdf 403]
  | designated_other1_num_position = bottom
  | image = 
  | caption = 
  | location = [[New Mexico State Road 400|NM&nbsp;400]], [[Fort Wingate, New Mexico]]
  | locmapin = New Mexico#USA
  | built = {{Start date|1868}}
  | added = May 26, 1978
  | area = {{convert|27|acre}}
  | refnum = 78003076<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>
}}
[[File:Apache Scouts.jpg|300px|right |thumb|Apache Scouts visiting Fort Wingate during the 1880s.]]
'''Fort Wingate''' was a military installation near [[Gallup, New Mexico]], United States. There were two other locations in New Mexico called Fort Wingate: [[Seboyeta, New Mexico|Seboyeta]] (1849–1862) and [[San Rafael, New Mexico|San Rafael]] (1862–1868).<ref>San Rafael is at {{coord|35.112466|-107.882652|type:city|format=dms}}.</ref> The most recent Fort Wingate (1868–1993) was established at the former site of Fort Lyon, on [[Navajo]] territory, initially to control and "protect" the large [[Navajo people|Navajo]] tribe to its north. The fort at San Rafael was the staging point for the Navajo deportation known as the [[Long Walk of the Navajo]]. From 1870 onward the garrison near Gallup was concerned with [[Apaches]] to the south, and through 1890 hundreds of [[Navajo Scouts]] were enlisted at the fort.

Fort Wingate supplied 100 tons of [[Composition B]] high explosives to the [[Manhattan Project]] for use in the first [[Trinity test]] and became an [[ammunition depot]] "Fort Wingate Depot Activity" from World War II until it was closed by the [[1993 Base Realignment and Closure Commission]]. Environmental cleanup of [[UXO]], [[perchlorate]], and lead as well as land transfer continue to the present day.

The '''Fort Wingate Historic District''' was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1978. The associated community was first listed as the Fort Wingate [[census-designated place]] in 2020, with a population of 328 during the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]].<ref name="Census 2020">{{Cite web| url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=&g=1600000US3527410&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P1| title=P1. Race – Fort Wingate CDP, New Mexico: 2020 DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171)| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau| access-date=December 3, 2024}}</ref>