Before the end of the year, the town called for an election to relocate the county seat, which at that time was in Fort Calhoun.
It is approximately 4 miles south of Fort Calhoun.
It was then found that Fort Calhoun's foundations had continued settling.
In 1862, with the Civil War underway, a name change was in order for Fort Calhoun.
In conjunction with Fort Calhoun (later Fort Wool), this was just enough range to cover the main shipping channel into the area.
The City of Fort Calhoun lies within the Township.
What about the American reactor (Fort Calhoun nuclear power station) currently inundated by floods in Missouri?
Fort Calhoun is a city in Washington County, Nebraska, United States.
In 2010, the population within 10 miles of Fort Calhoun was 20,639; the population within 50 miles was 953,410.
The new installation and adjacent Fort Calhoun (on a man-made island across the channel) were completed in 1834.