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About Forest Ridge, Indiana
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Fort Wayne
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Downtown Fort Wayne skyline
Historic Fort Wayne
Old City Hall
Allen County Courthouse and Lincoln Bank Tower
John Chapman’s grave in Johnny Appleseed Park
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Bridge
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“Summit City”; “City of Churches”; “City That Saved Itself”; “Magnet Wire Capital of the World”
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Kekionga
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 Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne
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41ยฐ04โฒ50โณN 85ยฐ08โฒ21โณW๏ปฟ / ๏ปฟ41.08056ยฐN 85.13917ยฐW |
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| Country |  ย United States |
| State |  ย Indiana |
| County | Allen |
| Townships | Aboite, Adams, Perry, Pleasant, St. Joseph, Washington, Wayne |
| Founding | October 22, 1794 |
| Incorporated (town) | January 3, 1829 |
| Incorporated (city) | February 22, 1840 |
| Founded by | Jean Franรงois Hamtramck |
| Named for | Anthony Wayne |
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| ย โขย Type | Mayorโcouncil |
| ย โขย Mayor | Tom Henry (D) |
| ย โขย Body | Fort Wayne City Council |
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| ย โขย City | 110.79ย sqย mi (286.95ย km2) |
| ย โขย Land | 110.57ย sqย mi (286.38ย km) |
| ย โขย Water | 0.22ย sqย mi (0.56ย km) |
| ย โขย Urban | 135.25ย sqย mi (350.3ย km) |
| ย โขย Metro | 1,368ย sqย mi (3,540ย km2) |
| Elevation | 810ย ft (247ย m) |
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| ย โขย City | 265,974 |
| ย โขย Rank | US: 84th |
| ย โขย Density | 2,400/sqย mi (930/km) |
| ย โขย Urban | 335,934 (US: 121st) |
| ย โขย Urbanย density | 2,053.4/sqย mi (792.8/km) |
| ย โขย Metro | 423,038 (US: 130th) |
| ย โขย CSA | 649,105 (US: 79th) |
| Demonym | Fort Wayner |
| Time zone | UTCโ05:00 (EST) |
| ย โขย Summer (DST) | UTCโ04:00 (EDT) |
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| Area code | 260 |
| FIPS code | 18-25000 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0434689 |
| Website | www |
Fort Wayne is a city in and the county seat of Allen County, Indiana, United States. Located in northeastern Indiana, the city is 18 miles (29ย km) west of the Ohio border and 50 miles (80ย km) south of the Michigan border. The city’s population was 263,886 as of the 2020 Census, making it the second-most populous city in Indiana after Indianapolis, and the 76th-most populous city in the United States. It is the principal city of the Fort Wayne metropolitan area, consisting of Allen and Whitley counties which had an estimated population of 423,038 as of 2021. Fort Wayne is the cultural and economic middle of northeastern Indiana. In supplement to the two core counties, the whole statistical area (CSA) includes Adams, DeKalb, Huntington, Noble, Steuben, and Wells counties, with an estimated population of 649,105 in 2021.
Fort Wayne was built in 1794 by the United States Army below the doling out of American Revolutionary War general Anthony Wayne, the last in a series of forts built near the Miami village of Kekionga. Named in Wayne’s honor, the European-American agreement developed at the confluence of the St. Joseph, St. Marys, and Maumee rivers, known originally as Fort Miami, a trading post build up by Jean Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes roughly 1706. The ahead of its time city was platted in 1823 in the song of its revitalization after the War of 1812 and its siege. It underwent tremendous accumulation after deed of the Wabash and Erie Canal and advent of the railroad. Once a well-to-do manufacturing town located in what became known as the Rust Belt, Fort Wayne’s economy in the 21st century is based on distribution, transportation and logistics; healthcare, professional and thing services; leisure and hospitality, and financial services. The city is a middle for the excuse industry which employs 1-2% of the population.
Fort Wayne was an All-America City Award recipient in 1983, 1998, 2009, and 2021. The city also customary an Outstanding Achievement City Livability Award by the U.S. Conference of Mayors in 1999.