


Other forts in the frontier fort system were Forts Griffin, Concho, Belknap, Chadbourne, Stockton, Davis, Richardson, McKavett, Clark, McIntosh, Inge and Phantom Hill in Texas, and Fort Sill in Oklahoma. Biggs Field, a military airport located at Fort Bliss, is designated a military power projection platform.Fort Bliss National Cemetery is located on the post. Its DoD (United States Department of Defense) counterpart, Joint Task Force North, is at Biggs Army Airfield. The headquarters for the El Paso Intelligence Center, a federal tactical operational intelligence center, is hosted at Fort Bliss. After being closed and relocated, Fort Bliss was officially named in 1854. Fort Bliss was originally established in 1848. The installation is also home to the 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command, the 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, the 212th Fires Brigade (now reflagged as the 1st Armored Division Artillery Brigade), and the 402nd Field Artillery Brigade. Fort Bliss, a United States Army installation, is located in the metropolitan city of El Paso, Texas, and New Mexico. The division is supported by the 15th Sustainment Brigade. The garrison's land area is accounted at 1.12 million acres, ranging to the boundaries of the Lincoln National Forest and White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.Fort Bliss is home to the 1st Armored Division, which returned to US soil in 2011 after 40 years in Germany. Fort Bliss provides the largest contiguous tract (1,500 sq mi or 3,900 km2) of restricted airspace in the Continental United States, used for missile and artillery training and testing, and at 992,000 acres boasts the largest maneuver area (ahead of the National Training Center, which has 642,000 acres). The portion of the post located in El Paso County, Texas, is a census-designated place with a population of 8,591 as of the time of the 2010 census. Bliss has an area of about 1,700 square miles (4,400 km2) it is the largest installation in FORSCOM (United States Army Forces Command) and second-largest in the Army overall (the largest being the adjacent White Sands Missile Range). Named in honor of LTC William Bliss (1815-1853), a mathematical genius who was the son-in-law of President Zachary Taylor, Ft. Fort Bliss is a United States Army post in New Mexico and Texas, with its headquarters in El Paso, Texas.
