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Fort Wayne is a city in and the county seat of Allen County, Indiana, United States. [10] Located in northeastern Indiana, the city is 18 miles (29 km) west of the Ohio border [11] and 50 miles (80 km) south of the Michigan border. [12]
Allen County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana.As of the 2020 Census, the population was 385,410, [1] making it the third-most populous county in Indiana. The county seat and largest city is Fort Wayne, the second largest city in Indiana.
North of Dupont Road, on the northside of Fort Wayne, the road becomes a rural four–lane divided highway. North of Fort Wayne, the route bypasses Huntertown, 8.20 miles (13.20 km) north of I-69. The road then enters Dekalb County, with a traffic light at SR 205.
The section that was from Liberty to Fort Wayne was Old SR 21. Old SR 46 was the original number given the a segment from Auburn to Angola. The section between Old SR 21 and Old SR 46 was known as Custer Trail. [13] [14] In 1924, the section north of Fort Wayne became Old SR 13 and went from Fort Wayne to the Michigan state line.
As of March 2020, the Fort Wayne–Huntington–Auburn Combined Statistical Area (CSA), or Fort Wayne Metropolitan Area, or Northeast Indiana is a federally designated metropolitan area consisting of eight counties in northeast Indiana (Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Huntington, Noble, Steuben, Wells, and Whitley counties), anchored by the city of Fort Wayne.
U.S. Route 30 (US 30) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that runs from Astoria, Oregon, to Atlantic City, New Jersey.In Indiana, the route runs from the Illinois state line at Dyer to the Ohio state line east of Fort Wayne and New Haven.
U.S. Route 24 (US 24) in Indiana runs east from the Illinois state line to Huntington.At Huntington, US 24 turns northeast and runs to Fort Wayne; it then runs concurrently with Interstate 69 (I-69) and I-469 to bypass the city before entering Ohio at the state line east of Fort Wayne.
In 1915, the highway opened and passed through downtown Fort Wayne on its route through Indiana. [8] In 1917, Main Market route number 2 was the given number to the Lincoln Highway in Indiana. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] In the early 1920s, the Lincoln Highway was moved farther south between Valparaiso and Fort Wayne, to what is now known mostly as Old US 30 ...