The fort was in active service between 1897 and 1925, and was originally established to maintain order during the Klondike Gold Rush for which St. Michael was a major transshipment point for people and goods moving up the Yukon River, whose mouth is nearby but is inaccessible to ocean-going ships.

The post was closed in 1925, and the military burials of its graveyard relocated to Sitka National Cemetery in 1929.

[2] The surviving elements of the fort were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

[1] Fort Saint Michael appeared once on the 1920 U.S. Census as an unincorporated military installation.

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