Fort Wingate, Military fort near Gallup, United States

Fort Wingate is a former military installation in McKinley County, New Mexico, 15 miles by road east-southeast of Gallup. The Fort Wingate census-designated place covers 0.11 square kilometers (about 27 acres). The historic district, listed in 1978, includes a long single-storey building with pale masonry walls, four white-framed windows, a projecting gabled section with a tall narrow window, and a brick chimney.

A hay camp near Seboyeta was named Fort Wingate in 1849 for Major Benjamin Wingate, who died in 1862 of wounds from the Battle of Valverde. The post moved to San Rafael in 1862, where it staged the Long Walk of the Navajo in 1864, then in 1868 to the former Fort Lyon site at Ojo del Oso. It became an ammunition depot in 1940, supplied 100 tons of Composition B for the Trinity test in 1944, and closed in 1993.

The fort's name honours Major Benjamin Wingate of the 5th U.S. Infantry, who died on 1 June 1862 of wounds from the Battle of Valverde. The site at Ojo del Oso, Spanish for "Eye of the Bear", was a Navajo place visited for grazing and water. From 1873 to 1886 hundreds of Navajo Scouts were enlisted at the fort for the Apache Wars.

Access is via Interstate 40, though the installation itself is not open for public visits. Those interested in the regional history find information panels along the road and can view the outer areas from the edge of the installation.

In 1944 Fort Wingate supplied 100 tons of Composition B high explosive to the Manhattan Project for the first Trinity test. The Missile Defense Agency still uses 6,465 acres of the site to launch target rockets toward White Sands Missile Range. The Fort Wingate Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.