Fort Cummings is a former U. S. Army post located near Cooke's Springs, in Luna County, New Mexico.

It was the only large supply of fresh water between Mesilla and the Mimbres River for wagons heading to California on the Southern Emigrant Trail as well as the later Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach route.

Fort Cummings was established to control the Apache Indians, and to protect the Butterfield – Overland stage route and the southern overland road to California where it passed through Cooke's Pass.

However it was reoccupied later when Apache under Victorio, launched a campaign against the white American settlers in 1880.

Again abandoned it only remains as some eroding adobe walls, and along with the nearby site of the stage station and post graveyard to the south.