Homes for Rent in Fort Scott, KS

Formerly a Western frontier fort, the city of Fort Scott is now a regional hub for Kansas’ border with Missouri. Just over 7,500 people live in this city, many of them working for manufacturers like Peerless Products, Ward Kraft Inc. and Fort Scott Munitions. Though people might come to Fort Scott with Kansas City in mind, they’ll find this historic city to have plenty of amenities and charm of its own. “The appeal there is that it’s about an hour from Kansas City,” says Shelly Hildebrandt, a Realtor with Cobb Realty, Inc. “Some people like to live in Fort Scott if they’re commuting; it’s still not too far to go to Kansas City if they’re employed in that area. They can buy a home so much cheaper than buying it in a large metropolitan area.” Fort Scott has a long history, with the fort itself founded in 1842 and a community developing around that outpost in the 1850s. “There’s a really cool historical area of Fort Scott that they’re very much known for; in some parts of town like the old downtown area, you still have historic buildings,” Hildebrandt says. Much of Fort Scott’s housing supply traces its origins to this town’s railroad boom at the dawn of the 20th century and to the