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Indiantown is a village in western Martin County, Florida, that began as a Seminole trading post in the 1800s before white settlers arrived in the area in the 1890s.

Indiantown became a village only on December 31, 2017, incorporating by special state legislation after residents voted 576 to 337 in favor; it was the first new municipality created in Martin County in 57 years.

Indiantown had 6,560 residents in the 2020 census, up from 6,083 in 2010 and 5,588 in 2000.

The 2020 census counted just 1,777 households in Indiantown, nearly half of them with children under 18, and the village is young, with a median age of only 30.0 years.

Railroad builder S. Davies Warfield transformed Indiantown in 1924 by extending the Seaboard Air Line Railroad through it and planning it as the line's southern hub; he also built the Seminole Inn, which still stands and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Warfield's name lives on in Warfield Boulevard, the village's main route, and in Warfield Elementary School.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Indiantown's Circle T Ranch hosted a popular rodeo; its 1963 event drew approximately 15,000 visitors and was described as the largest tourist attraction in Florida at the time.

Beginning in the 1980s, Indigenous Maya Guatemalans fleeing the Guatemalan Civil War settled in Indiantown in large numbers; by one 2010 estimate there were 4,000 to 5,000 Maya residents, and Hispanic or Latino residents made up about 70% of the village's population in the 2020 census.

Indiantown is home to Payson Park, one of the top thoroughbred horse training facilities in the United States; Monkees frontman Davy Jones kept a stable of thoroughbred horses there and died in Indiantown on Leap Day, February 29, 2012.

The village motto is 'Where Great Things Grow,' reflecting an economy that still relies heavily on seasonal agriculture, cattle, and citrus.