Forty Fort is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States.

[4] Its neighbors are Wyoming (to the north), Plains Township (to the east), Kingston (to the south), and Swoyersville (to the west).

[5] During the Revolutionary War, a force of Loyalist soldiers and Haudenosaunee warriors arrived in the Wyoming Valley on June 30, 1778.

On July 3, roughly 300 Patriot militia and 60 Continentals under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Zebulon Butler sallied from Forty Fort.

This caused millions of dollars in damage to Forty Fort and the surrounding communities.

[9] In addition to structural damage, the Forty Fort Cemetery was heavily affected when over 2,000 caskets were washed away.

[10] Recovered bodies were eventually buried in a mass grave with a monument marking the 1972 flood's damage.

In September 2011, the borough's levee system was once again put to the test when Tropical Storm Lee caused severe flooding throughout the Wyoming Valley.

[11] Forty Fort hugs the western bank of the Susquehanna River just north of Wilkes-Barre.

Its neighbors are Wyoming (to the north), Plains Township (to the east), Kingston (to the south), and Swoyersville (to the west).

One function of the office is to serve as spokesperson for the community and represent the borough at civic and social events.

[18] Forty Fort is part of the Wyoming Valley West School District.

The borough is also home to the southern edge of the Wilkes-Barre Wyoming Valley Airport, a public facility serving mainly general aviation aircraft.

Following the lawsuits related to the 2020 United States presidential election, the town appeared in the season finale of the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver where host John Oliver jokingly reinvented the story on the origin of the Forty Fort's name.