[1] Fort Ternan forms is the Headquarters of Chilchila ward of Kipkelion West Constituency in Kericho County .
There are local roads leading to highly productive highland areas like Kipsinende, Cherara, Kokwet, Chepkechei, Koisagat, Chepkitar and Lelu.
Fossils of the Middle Miocene 14 million[4] year old ape Kenyapithecus wickeri were first found by Louis Leakey near Fort Ternan in 1962.
A skull[4] belonging to the Cro-Magnon man was also found in Fort Ternan town, near Chilchila Primary School.
Coffee, sugar cane and tea (in a few high altitude areas) are grown in small-scale holding farms.