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Kokomo, Indiana

www.cityofkokomo.org

Kokomo was named after Miami Indian referred to as a chief, but later found to be local legend Ma-Ko-Ko-Mo, which is sometimes spelled as Koh-Koh-Mah or Kokomoko. His name translates to Black Walnut. There was a trading post for commerce between Native Americans and European-Americans here in the early 19th century. David Foster founded the first trading post in Howard County. In 1844, Foster donated forty acres of his land to create a county seat in Kokomo, which was a log courthouse, for use in the community. It was incorporated as a city in 1865.

Today, Kokomo is the county seat of Howard County, Indiana, United States. Kokomo is Indiana's 12th largest city. It is the principal city of the Kokomo, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Howard and Tipton counties. Kokomo's population was 45,468 in the 2010 Census.

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokomo,_Indiana

Recent city comments:

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    Best $10 lap dance in Indiana. It has been there since the 60's
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  • Howard County, Indiana, Rhatsa26WM wrote 17 years ago:
    Number 52 in my list of traced out Indiana Counties.
  • Kokomo Town Center, Kokomo Shopper (guest) wrote 18 years ago:
    Kokomo Mall features Panera Bread - Chuck E Cheese - Rally's Elder Beerman -JC Penney and Goody's Family Clothing- plus a 12 screen state of the art theater and many other shops.
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