Fort Logan National Cemetery

Fort Logan itself was established on October 31, 1887, and was in continuous use until 1946 when most of the acreage except for the cemetery was turned over to the state of Colorado. The national cemetery was created in 1950.

• Medal of Honor recipients
  • Major William E. Adams (1939–1971) – U.S. Army, Company A, 227th Aviation Battalion (Assault Helicopter); 52d Aviation Battalion (Combat), 1st Aviation Brigade. Kontum Province, Republic of Vietnam.[1]
  • First Sergeant Maximo Yabes (1932–1967) – U.S. Army, Company A, 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division. Phu Hoa Dong, Republic of Vietnam[1]
  • Private John Davis (1838–1901) – Company F, 17th Indiana Mounted Infantry. Culloden, Georgia, April 1865 (Civil War) (cenotaph)[1]
• Others
  • George R. Caron (1919–1995) – tail gunner on the Enola Gay
  • John A. Carroll (1901–1995) – United States Representative and Senator
  • Joanne Conte (1933–2013) – Transgender woman. As Joseph Baione, Conte served as a military Morse code operator for the U.S. Army and Air Force during the Korean War.[2]
  • John F. Curry (1886–1973) – Major General and first commander of the Civil Air Patrol
  • Danny Dietz (1980–2005) – US Navy Seal. Littleton CO native, perished in Operation Red Wings.[3]
  • Byron "Mex" Johnson (1911–2005) – Negro league baseball player
  • Ernest Klingbeil (1908–1995) – professional hockey player
  • Arthur Harvey (1895–1976) – oil pioneer and a veteran of World War I and World War II
  • Richard H. Kindig (1916–2008) – photographer noted for documenting the rail transport industry of Colorado and the Rocky Mountains[4][5]
  • Fitzroy Newsum (1918–2013) – original member of the Tuskegee Airmen[6]
  • Dorothy L. Starbuck (1917–1996) – Women's Army Corps officer and Veteran's Administration civil servant.[7]
  • Karl H. Timmermann (1922–1951) – commanded the unit which captured the Rhine River's Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen during World War II
  • Steven Curnow & Kyle Velasquez – victims of the 1999 Columbine High School Massacre[8]

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  Wreaths placed at headstones
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  Bond Brye
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  Graves in a newer section
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  Fort Logan National Cemetery, April 5, 2012
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  Flags placed on graves, Memorial Day 2006
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  Graves in the older section
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  Grave of Karl F. Baatz, a German World War II POW

• National Register of Historic Places listings in West Denver

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fort Logan National Cemetery.

• Fort Logan National Cemetery website
• Gravesite Locator (for all national cemeteries)
• Friends of Historic Fort Logan
• Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) No. CO-2, "Fort Logan National Cemetery, 3698 South Sheridan Boulevard, Denver, Denver, CO"
• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fort Logan National Cemetery