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 Seats for Forklifts Fort Wayne - Fort Wayne is located in Indiana State and serves and the county seat of Allen County. The city of Fort Wayne boasts a population over 250,000 and is the second biggest within the state of Indiana according to the 2010 census. The municipality of Fort Wayne is situated in the northeastern portion of Indiana and is about 80 km or 50 miles south of the border within Michigan State and 18 miles or 29 km west of the border within the state of Ohio.
Fort Wayne is the main city in the Fort Wayne Metropolitan Statistical Area. This is an area that includes Whitley, Wells and Allen counties. Their combined population is estimated at 414,315. Moreover, the Fort Wayne-Auburn-Huntington CSA is a different combined statistical area that includes Huntington, Adams, DeKalb and Noble counties for a combined population of 610,015 residents.
The U.S. Army constructed Fort Wayne in the year 1794, last in a series of forts located near the Miami Indian Village of Kekionga. It was constructed under the direction of American Revolutionary War statesman General "Mad" Anthony Wayne. The fort was named in Wayne's honor and was established at the confluence of the Maumee, St. Joseph and St. Mary's Rivers. The city of Fort Wayne became a trading post for European settlers. In 1823, the village was platted and following the completion of the Erie and Wabash Canals, the region saw tremendous growth.
The Miami first nation established a settlement at Kekionga during the mid-17th century. The settlement was located along the rivers St. Joseph, St. Mary's and Maumee. The village served the Miami nation and several other Algonquian tribes. It is estimated by historians that around the year 1676, French priests and missionaries visited the Miami people as they were returning from a mission at Lake Michigan. In the year 1680, a letter was sent to the Governor-General of Canada from Sieur de La Salle, Rene-Robert Cavelier, stating that he too had stopped there. The traders from France established a post in the 1680s, as it was the crucial portage between the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes.
During the mid-20th century, the city of Fort Wayne developed into a main manufacturing centre. Businesses including Magnavox, General Electric, Westinghouse and International Harvest were instrumental in the cities local economy. Furthermore, Essex Wire, Rea Magnet Wire and Phelps Dodge made the largest concentration of copper wire production in the globe during the Second World War. When the century drew to a close, the reduction of manufacturing jobs all over the country, along with improvements in technology led the city of Fort Wayne to be counted among other cities situated in the Rust Belt.
The city's economy has begun to diversify over the last few decades into security and defense, insurance, health care, and education. Recently, the hospitality and service sector has likewise grown. During 2006, there were 5.4 million visitors who visited and spent over $415 million within Fort Wayne.
The city has become the headquarters for companies including: Steel Dynamics, Do It Best, North American Van Lines, Medical Protective, Genteq, Vera Bradley, Rea Magnet Wire and Sweetwater Sound. Steel Dynamics is the only Fortune 500 Company.
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