Fort Nogales

For other Forts McHenry, see Fort McHenry (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Villa Gayoso.

Fort Nogales was an 18th-century Spanish colonial fort in West Florida, at the confluence of the Yazoo River and the Mississippi River. The fort stood at the site of present-day Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi, United States. The name Nogales means walnuts in Spanish. The name of the Spanish fort and the early 19th-century American settlement called Walnut Hills were both named for the groves of Juglans nigra (North American black walnut) in the woods surrounding the settlement.

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