FORT SCOTT, a city of south-eastern Kansas, U.S.A., on the Marmaton river, 5m. from the Missouri State line ; the county seat of Bourbon county. It is on Federal highway 54 and 73 E, and is an important railroad centre, served by the Frisco. the Missouri-Kansas-Texas and the Missouri Pacific lines. The population in 1930 Federal census was 10,763. The city is built on a rolling plain, in the midst of the Kansas mineral fields, and is surrounded by a farming, stock-raising and dairying country. Coal, oil and gas, lead and zinc, building stone, cement rock and clays are found in the neighbourhood, and white sulphur water is obtained from Artesian wells (800ft. deep) in the city. It is an important shipping and supply centre, and has numerous and varied manufacturing industries, with an output in 1927 valued at $3,371,367. The fort which preceded the town of Fort Scott was established in 1842, when eastern Kansas was still parcelled out among Indian tribes, and was abandoned in 1855. The town was planned in 1857 and chartered as a city in 186o.