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Fort Branch is the largest town and the second-largest community in Gibson County, after Princeton, and it is part of the Evansville, Indiana, metropolitan area.

Fort Branch takes its name from a frontier fort built in 1811 along the Red Bank Trail — a stockade with two two-story blockhouses guarding pioneers midway between Vincennes and the Ohio River; the trail later became U.S. Highway 41.

The town itself got its start in 1852 when the railroad was built through the territory; it was originally called LaGrange, for the original owner of the site, but was renamed for the old fort because another Indiana post office already used the name LaGrange.

Fort Branch had 2,965 residents at the 2020 census, living in 1,279 households within the town's roughly 1.1 square miles.

For nearly 90 years Fort Branch's largest employer was the Emge Foods processing and packing plant on the town's southwest side; it closed in May 1999, and a five-day fire in June 2010 destroyed the vacant plant, leaving only its smokestack standing.

An F3 tornado passed through Fort Branch on April 3, 1989, causing millions of dollars in damage, and an EF3 wedge tornado crossed just north of town on February 28, 2017.

When Toyota built its large assembly plant on farmland halfway between Fort Branch and Princeton, many of the workers who moved to the area chose to live in Fort Branch and neighboring Haubstadt, boosting the town's growth.

Fort Branch students attend Fort Branch Community School from kindergarten through eighth grade and then Gibson Southern High School, both in the South Gibson School Corporation.

The old Fort Branch High School was merged into Gibson Southern High School in 1974.

Vincennes University's Center for Advanced Manufacturing opened in August 2011 just south of Fort Branch along U.S. 41, training workers for the region's increasingly diverse manufacturing base.