title: Fort Nelson
text: # Fort Nelson
  
  Fort Nelson may refer to:
  
  ## Canada
  
  * Fort Nelson, British Columbia, a town
  * Fort Nelson River, British Columbia
  * Fort Nelson (Manitoba) (1670–1713), an early fur trading post at the mouth of the Nelson River and the first headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company
  
  ## United Kingdom
  
  * Fort Nelson, Hampshire, England (built 1860–1867), a Palmerston Fort and present-day museum
  
  ## United States
  
  * Fort Nelson (Kentucky), built in 1781
  * Fort Nelson (Virginia), first constructed in 1776
  