Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Huntertown, IN

Huntertown is a town in Allen County, Indiana, sitting along State Road 3 (Lima Road) just north of Fort Wayne.

The settlement was originally called "The Opening" because it occupied a rare natural clearing in the dense forest.

Huntertown was first settled around 1837 and founded by William T. Hunter, for whom it is named; the town was platted in 1869 but not incorporated until 1966.

The village grew up along the Lima Plank Road, the early toll road connecting Lima (now Howe) with Fort Wayne.

The Perry Centre Seminary opened in Huntertown in 1856 and closed only five years later, when its entire faculty and adult students enlisted in the Union Army at the start of the Civil War.

Some of the oldest reliable weather records in the United States were kept on a Huntertown farm, where Rapin Andrews began daily meteorological observations on July 17, 1839, and his family continued them until 1874; the diary recorded a low of -34 degrees Fahrenheit on January 29, 1873.

The 2020 census counted 9,141 residents in Huntertown, a roughly 90 percent increase over 2010, making it one of the fastest-growing communities in northeastern Indiana.

Huntertown's 3,131 households skew young and family-oriented: the median age in 2020 was 34.2, and 47 percent of households included children under 18.

The town's population has multiplied more than tenfold since 1970, when just 775 people lived there, driven by suburban subdivisions spreading north from Fort Wayne.

Huntertown's weekly newspaper, the Northwest News, has published since 1997 from the former Huntertown State Bank building, a site robbed by the John Dillinger gang in the 1930s.