Fort Knox

About Fort Knox

Welcome to Fort Knox! Perhaps best known for its proximity to the famous United States Bullion Depository, this vital US Army post has a lot more to it than a vault full of gold. Named for Henry Knox, George Washington’s Chief of Artillery and America’s first Secretary of War, this post has been one of the Army’s most vital installations since the Civil War. Covering nearly 109,000 acres of Kentucky’s Bullit, Hardin, and Meade counties, Fort Knox was best known among the military as the home of the US Army Armor Center for over six decades. It’s now the home of the Army Human Resources Center...