1 historical place across Garfield County, Utah.
Fort Sanford was a short-lived military outpost built in 1866 during the Black Hawk War to protect the pioneer settlements of Panguitch and Circleville and guard important travel routes through the upper Sevier Valley. Major Silas Sanford Smith and his troops constructed the large cedar-picket stockade near the junction of Bear Creek and the Sevier River, but changing military conditions made the fort unnecessary only months after it was completed.
