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Fort Wayne, Indiana is the county seat of Allen County. In the year 2010, the Census recorded the population as 253, 691 and it came in as the 2nd biggest city in Indiana state, and the 74th biggest city within the nation. The city of Fort Wayne is situated in the northeastern portion of Indiana and is about 50 miles or 80 km south of the Michigan border and 29 km or 18 miles west of the border in the state of Ohio.

The city of Fort Wayne is the main city in the Fort Wayne Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is an area that consists of the counties of Wells, Allen and Whitley. Their combined population is estimated at 414,315. Furthermore, the Fort Wayne-Auburn-Huntington CSA is a different combined statistical area that consists of Adams, Huntington, Noble and DeKalb counties for a combined population of 610,015 residents.

Fort Wayne was constructed in 1794 by the US Army, in what was the last in a series of forts constructed near the Miami Indian Village of Kekionga. It was constructed under the guidance of General "Mad" Anthony Wayne, who was an American Revolutionary War statesman. 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 settlers from Europe. In the year 1823, the village was platted and following the completion of the Wabash and Erie Canals, the area saw tremendous growth.

The Miami first nation established a settlement at Kekionga in the middle part of the17th century. The settlement was situated along the rivers St. Joseph, St. Mary's and Maumee. The village served the Miami nation and numerous other Algonquian tribes. It is projected by historians that about the year 1676, French priests and missionaries visited the Miami people as they were going home from a mission at Lake Michigan. During the year 1680, a letter was sent to the Governor-General of Canada from Sieur de La Salle, Rene-Robert Cavelier, stating that he also had stopped there. The traders from France established a post in the 1680s, because it was the crucial portage between the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes.

In the mid-20th century, Fort Wayne developed into a major manufacturing centre. Businesses like for example General Electric, Magnavox, Westinghouse and International Harvest were instrumental in Fort Wayne's local economy. Furthermore, Rea Magnet Wire, Phelps Dodge and Essex Wire made the biggest concentration of copper wire production in the globe in the Second World War. Once the century drew to a close, the decline of manufacturing jobs nationwide, along with advancements in technology led Fort Wayne to be counted among other cities located in the Rust Belt.

Over recent decades, the economy in the city has diversified to incorporate insurance, security and defense, education and health care. Recently, the service and hospitality sector has likewise grown. During the year 2006, there were 5.4 million visitors who visited and spent more than $415 million in the city of Fort Wayne.

Businesses that operate their headquarters out of Fort Wayne include: Do It Best, Steel Dynamics, North American Van Lines, Medical Protective, Vera Bradley, Genteq, Sweetwater Sound and Rea Magnet Wire. The only Fortune 500 company is Steel Dynamics.