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Nappanee is a city in Elkhart County, extending into Kosciusko County, in the heart of northern Indiana's Amish Country.

Nappanee was platted on December 12, 1874, when the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad pushed through the marshy area; trains had begun service to the station, first called Locke's Station, on December 6, 1874.

The name Nappanee is thought to mean 'flour' in the Algonquian language, though some accounts link it to settlers who came from Napanee, Ontario.

Nappanee incorporated as a town in 1889 and as a city in 1925.

Nappanee had a population of 6,949 at the 2020 census, living in 2,728 households.

The city sits at the center of an Amish settlement founded in 1842 that ranked as the sixth-largest Amish settlement in the world, with about 5,910 Amish residents in 43 congregations as of 2017; horse-drawn buggies remain an everyday sight.

Amish Acres, now known as The Barns at Nappanee, is an 80-acre historic 1873 farmstead opened as a heritage attraction in 1970 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places; its Round Barn Theatre, housed in a 1911 round barn, is the national home of the musical 'Plain and Fancy.'

Cabinetmaking built Nappanee: the Coppes, Zook and Mutschler mill, started in 1875, made the town a center for furniture and kitchen cabinets, a heritage preserved in today's Coppes Commons.

Nappanee is a manufacturing hub for recreational vehicles and manufactured homes within Elkhart County, the center of the American RV industry, and has hosted a major Alexander Dennis bus assembly plant since 2014.

On October 18, 2007, an EF3 tornado tore through Nappanee at night, damaging 200 to 250 buildings — half of them severely — including three recreational vehicle factories.