Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in New Haven, IN

New Haven is a city in Allen County that sits immediately east of Fort Wayne, Indiana's second-largest city, mostly along the southern banks of the Maumee River.

New Haven was platted in 1839 by Henry Burgess, who named it after New Haven, Connecticut; it incorporated as a town in 1865 and did not become a city until 1963.

The 2020 census counted 15,583 people in New Haven living in 6,390 households, capping a run of growth from just 912 residents back in 1870.

New Haven marks the westernmost point of prehistoric glacial Lake Maumee, an extension of Lake Erie whose drained lake bed became the Great Black Swamp stretching toward Toledo, Ohio.

The old Lincoln Highway east of New Haven follows the southern shoreline bank of that vanished glacial lake, a notable geological feature.

Swiss Amish settlers arrived in the New Haven area in the 1850s, and they are distinct among Amish groups for speaking an Alsatian German dialect.

The historic French settlement of Besançon sits on New Haven's eastern edge along the Lincoln Highway, and its St. Louis Catholic Church is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as is the city's Wabash Railroad Depot.

The Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society is based just east of New Haven and operates the restored Nickel Plate Road 765, a Lima Locomotive Works steam engine, along with the Craigville Depot.

A Burgess family home on Summit Street is the oldest brick structure in Jefferson Township, and several other homes built by the founding Burgess family still stand in the city.

Almost all of New Haven is served by East Allen County Schools, whose district offices are headquartered in the city, and local students attend New Haven High School and New Haven Junior High School.