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Griffith is a town in North and St. John townships in Lake County, part of the Chicago metropolitan area in Northwest Indiana.

Griffith was founded in 1854 and incorporated in 1904; it is named for Benjamin Griffith, and brothers Jay and Elmer Dwiggins platted the town in 1891.

Griffith's nickname is 'The Town That Came to the Tracks,' a nod to its growth as a railroad town where multiple rail lines converged.

The 2020 Census counted 16,528 people and 6,846 households in Griffith, down from the town's historical peak of 18,168 residents in 1970.

In 2018 Griffith voters approved leaving Calumet Township by a 98%-to-2% margin, and the town became part of North Township instead.

Griffith has three listings on the National Register of Historic Places: the Griffith State Bank, the E.J. and E. Griffith Interlocking Tower, and the Griffith Grand Trunk Depot.

Griffith Public Schools operates Griffith Senior High School, Griffith Middle School, and Beiriger and Wadsworth elementary schools, while the town's southeastern St. John Township section attends Lake Central High School; St. Mary Catholic Elementary & Junior High School is also in Griffith.

The Griffith-Merrillville Airport, a general aviation field, lies within Griffith's town boundaries.

Griffith's Broad Street was once Indiana State Road 73, described as the shortest state route in Indiana and the only one that existed entirely within a single town; its crossing of six rail lines' 13 tracks was once called the busiest railroad crossing in the country before the route was decommissioned on September 26, 1969.

Parts of Griffith sit atop the ancient Calumet shorelines — beach ridges left behind by glacial Lake Michigan — which still cross the town as subtle ridges.