Fort Dodge, city, seat of Webster County, central Iowa, on the Des Moines River; incorporated 1869. It is the commercial center of an agricultural region producing corn, soybeans, and livestock and has slaughterhouses and meat-packing industries. Extensive gypsum deposits underlie the city, and gypsum products are a major local manufacture; other products include pharmaceuticals, pet food, and aluminum cans. A community college and the Blanden Memorial Art Gallery are here. Fort Clarke was founded here in 1850 to protect settlers from the Sioux; it was renamed Fort Dodge in 1851 for General Henry Dodge, U.S. senator from Wisconsin. Population 29,423 (1980); 25,894 (1990); 25,136 (2000).Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2001
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