Fort Thomas is a house rule-class city in Campbell County, Kentucky, United States, on the southern bank of the Ohio River and the site of an 1890 US Army post. The population was 16,325 at the 2010 census, making it the largest city in Campbell County and it is officially part of the Cincinnati – Northern Kentucky metropolitan area.

Evidence suggests that upon or roughly speaking 1749, prior to unity by Europeans, a large fight occurred amongst a band of Cherokee Native Americans and victorious Miami tribe and Shawnee tribe Native Americans in what is now the city of Fort Thomas. As many as 600 graves of slain warriors have been unearthed by archeologists there; although the battleground Place has been adequately combed for artifacts and remains higher than the years, it is nevertheless not uncommon to locate arrowheads and other artifacts from the next while farming or hiking the woods and streambeds throughout the city.

In 1887, a site was needed to house a United States Army read out to replace Newport Barracks located in the adjoining city of Newport, Kentucky. Built in 1803, Newport Barracks replaced the smaller Fort Washington, located across the Ohio River in Cincinnati, Ohio. That army pronounce was located at the junction of the Licking and Ohio Rivers, but it was prone to flooding and flooded numerous era during the prematurely 1880s. A new, less flood prone location was sought. General Philip Sheridan personally prearranged 11 acres (4.5 ha) of the city and dubbed the Place the Highlands, predicting it to become the “West Point of the West.” The new post was named Fort Thomas in great compliment of General George Henry Thomas.

The area has many remnants of this era behind a 102-foot (31 m) high Stone Water Tower as a familiar landmark which stands at the entrance to Tower Park. It was the 16th structure built upon the grounds of the Military Reservation. It encloses a standpipe which has a knack of 100,000 gallons, pumped from the Water District reservoirs just across South Fort Thomas Avenue. In 1890 with the military base was established, such provisions for water supply was indispensable as there was no new water tower in this area. Cannons that were captured in Cuba’s Havana Harbor during the Spanish–American War rest on stone platforms in front of the Tower. The dates marked upon these cannons, reflecting the date they were made in Barcelona, Spain, are “1768” and “1769.”