Editing Huntertown, Indiana (section)

==History==
[[Image:Huntertown.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The scenic, historic downtown district of Huntertown on Old Lima Road]]
Huntertown was originally referred to as "The Opening" due to it being a natural forest clearing. Huntertown was first settled ''circa'' 1837 and was founded by William T. Hunter.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Griswold|first1=Bert Joseph|last2=Taylor|first2=Mrs. Samuel R.|title=The Pictorial History of Fort Wayne, Indiana: A Review of Two Centuries of Occupation of the Region about the Head of the Maumee River|url=https://archive.org/details/pictorialhistory01gris|year=1917|publisher=Robert O. Law Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/pictorialhistory01gris/page/656 656]}}</ref> The village was located along the Lima Plank Road connecting Lima (now [[Howe, Indiana|Howe]]) and [[Fort Wayne, Indiana|Fort Wayne]]. The Perry Centre Seminary was founded in Huntertown in 1856, only to close five years later when the entire faculty and adult students enlisted in the [[Union Army]]. The town was platted in 1869, but not incorporated until 1966.<ref>Allen County - Fort Wayne Historical Society</ref>

Some of the nation's oldest reliable weather observations are from a nineteenth-century Huntertown farm. Rapin Andrews began keeping meteorological records on July 17, 1839, and continued until his death ten years later. His family continued the observations until April 30, 1874. The diary of weather records was presented to the U.S. Weather Bureau (now the [[National Weather Service]]) in 1934. The record highest temperature was {{convert|102|°F|°C|abbr=on}} in July 1846 and the record lowest temperature was {{convert|-34|°F|°C|abbr=on}} on January 29, 1873.<ref>National Weather Service archives</ref>

===Recent developments===
Since much of Huntertown's growth has come from people moving from urbanized areas like [[Fort Wayne, Indiana|Fort Wayne]] to new [[suburban]] subdivisions, the expectations for services have increased. For example, the town council expanded from three to five members to lessen the workload. The council now{{When|date=August 2022}} is working on creating a new water plant, a parks board, and a new {{convert|27|acre|m2|adj=on}} park.

The town's weekly newspaper, ''Northwest News'', began operations in the summer of 1997 in the former Huntertown State Bank, site of a 1930s robbery by the [[John Dillinger]] gang.<ref>''Northwest News''</ref>