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Fort Dodge is a city in and the county seat of Webster County, Iowa, United States, along the Des Moines River. The population was 24,871 in the 2020 census, a halt from 25,136 in 2000. Fort Dodge is a major commercial middle for North Central and Northwest Iowa. It is located upon U.S. Routes 20 and 169.

Fort Dodge traces its beginnings to 1850 in the atmosphere of E Company of the 6th Infantry were sent from Fort Snelling to erect and garrison a fort at the junction of the Des Moines River and Lizard Creek. It was originally named Fort Clarke but was renamed Fort Dodge because there was choice fort like the same name in Texas. It was named after Henry Dodge, a supervisor of Wisconsin Territory (which had included Iowa until Iowa became a come clean in 1846). The fort was forlorn by the Army in 1853.

The adjacent year William Willams, a civilian storekeeper in Fort Dodge, purchased the estate and buildings of the old-fashioned fort. The town of Fort Dodge was founded in 1869. In 1872 the long and continuing records of gypsum production in Iowa started next George Ringland, Webb Vincent, and Stillman T. Meservey formed the Fort Dodge Plaster Mills to mine, grind, and prepare gypsum for flyer use.^{[citation needed]} The Company constructed the first gypsum mill west of the Mississippi River, at the head of what is now known as Gypsum Creek.