Fort Kent Real Estate

Fort Kent is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States.

Fort Kent is home to an Olympic biathlete training center, an annual CAN-AM dogsled race, and the Fort Kent Blockhouse, built in reaction to the Aroostook War and in modern times designated a national historic site. Principal industries include agriculture (particularly potatoes and forestry) and textiles. Fort Kent is the northern terminus of U.S. 1 and the ending point of the Northern Forest Canoe Trail.

Fort Kent was erected in the summer of 1839 as an American border outpost during the undeclared Aroostook War. The blockhouse, the first structure built in what is present-day city of Fort Kent, was named after then-governor of Maine Edward Kent.

According to the US census, the town has a total area of 55.3 square miles, of which, 54.2 square miles is land and 1.2 square miles (2.15%) is water.

As of the 2010 census, there were 4,097 people residing in the town, and according to the 2000 census there were 1,735 households, and 1,106 families residing in the town. The population density was 78.2 people per square mile. There were 1,824 housing units at an average density of 33.7 per square mile.

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