Fishers, Indiana Fishers, Indiana Fishers City Hall Fishers City Hall Fishers is a town/city located in Fall Creek and Delaware townships, Hamilton County, Indiana, United States, with a populace of 76,794, as stated to the 2010 census.
A suburb of Indianapolis, Fishers has grown quickly in recent decades: about 350 citizens lived there in 1963, 2,000 in 1980, and only 7,200 as recently as 1990.
In 2011, Fishers was titled the number one town/city for families by The Learning Channel and was chose as a Green Community by the Indiana Association of Cities and Towns. The town/city was titled the safest in the country by CQ Press for 2011-2012 and 2012-2013. In 2010, Fishers was ranked eighth in the best places to live as stated to Money magazine, America's best affordable suburb by Business - Week, and the eleventh best place to move in the nation by Forbes. Fishers was also ranked the 24th best place to live in America by Money periodical in 2005, 33rd in 2006, 10th in 2008, and 12th in 2012. After the passage of a popular vote on Fishers' status in 2012, Fishers transitioned from a town to a town/city on January 1, 2015.
The first mayor of Fishers Scott Fadness along with the city's first clerk and town/city council were sworn in on December 21, 2014. In 1802 William Conner settled what is now present-day Fishers, Indiana.
Settlers started moving to the region after Indiana became a state in 1816 and the Delaware Indians gave up their claims in Indiana and Ohio to the United States government in 1818 in the Treaty of St.
In 1823, Hamilton County was chartered by the Indiana General Assembly and Delaware Township was established and surveyed. After the state of Indiana moved its capital to Indianapolis from Corydon in 1825, the improve started to grow.
President William Mc - Kinley. Today, Ambassador House sits on the grounds of Fishers' Heritage Park at White River, and plans for its restoration are being advanced by Fishers' Historic Preservation Committee. In 1849, assembly began on the Peru & Indianapolis Railroad, extending from Indianapolis to Chicago. This barns brought a several citizens to the region then known as Fisher's Switch.
In 1872, Fisher's Switch, also known as Fishers Station, was platted by Salathial Fisher at the present-day intersection of 116th Street and the barns . Indiana's General Assembly incorporated Fisher's Station in 1891. In 1908 the postal service changed the name of Fishers Switch to Fishers by dropping "Switch." The Fishers populace interval slowly to 388 by the 1960 census when rail shipment declined.
The relocation of State Road 37 to the east side of town and the connection with Interstate 69 ensured the future expansion of Fishers as a commercial and residentiary center. The Town of Fishers would soon turn into a fast-growing suburb of Indianapolis.
Fall Creek Township became the site of a consolidation of region schools when Hamilton Southeastern High School was formed in the 1960s. In 1989 the town's populace reached 7,000 and the first Freedom Festival was held.
Weaver Municipal Complex opened as Fishers' civic and government center in 1992.
The complex is home to the Fishers Town Hall, the police and fire department command posts buildings, the Fishers Post Office, the Hamilton County Convention and Visitor's Bureau, and the Fishers Chamber of Commerce.
The 2000 census reported the populace of Fishers at almost 38,000. With the town's affordable homes, burgeoning economy, and adjacency to the booming town/city of Indianapolis and Interstate 69 the expansion in Fishers was tremendous.
In 2003 the town of Fishers requested a special census from the U.S.
Enumeration Bureau to accurately measure the rapid populace growth since 2000. This census would put the town's populace at 52,390, which is a 38 percent increase from the 2000 census. Since then much of the government's resources have been devoted to building parks, maintaining roads, and managing the rapid expansion of the town.
In July 2005, Money Magazine unveiled its annual ranking of Best Places to Live in the United States and rated Fishers as twenty-fourth best.
Fishers ranked higher than any town or town/city in Indiana, and was one of only two jurisdictions in the state to crack the magazine's Top 100. Since then Fishers has won various awards including Best Affordable Suburb by Business - Week Magazine (2007), Best Place in the Country to Raise a Family by Forbes Magazine (2008, 2012), and Best Place to Raise Kids by Business - Week.com (2010). In January 2009, the Geist United Opposition conceded a four-year legal battle with Fishers over the involuntary annexation of the adjoining, unincorporated region around Geist Reservoir.
This allowed Fishers to annex and incorporate this region of 2,200 homes on January 2, 2010, and to begin taxing it in 2011.
This increased Fishers populace by about 5,500 citizens , making the town the eighth-largest improve in Indiana. In 1998, a popular vote to change Fishers from a town to a town/city was rejected by 75% of the town's voters. In December 2010, the Fishers Town Council allowed two popular vote questions: whether or not to turn into a city, and whether or not to turn into a traditional town/city with an propel mayor and traditional town/city council or a modified town/city with a mayor propel by and from the period nine-member town/city council.
The latter would have also consolidated the governments of Fishers and Fall Creek Township. In the popular vote held November 6, 2012, voters rejected the consolidation with Fall Creek Township to turn into a modified town/city with an appointed mayor 62% to 37%, while approving a change to a traditional "second-class city", with an propel mayor 55% to 44%. Flag of the City of Fishers Even with its large size, Fishers, unlike close-by Noblesville and Carmel, retained the status of a town for a several years.
Until 2012, Fishers used a council manager government, with a seven-member town council and a clerk-treasurer, all propel at-large for four years.
Due to the shifts allowed in the November 2012 popular vote, the town became a "second-class city", with an propel mayor, town/city clerk and nine-member town/city council. on January 1, 2015, following the election of the new officers in the 2014 general election. Scott Fadness, who had been the last town manager, was propel the newly minted city's first mayor.
14.1% of Fishers' housing units are multi-unit structures.
Fishers also has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the state at 4.5%. Fishers is positioned at 39 57'22" North, 86 0'46" West (39.956177, 86.012754), along the West Fork of the White River.
According to the 2010 census, Fishers has a total region of 35.839 square miles (92.82 km2), of which 33.59 square miles (87.00 km2) (or 93.72%) is territory and 2.249 square miles (5.82 km2) (or 6.28%) is water. Summers in Fishers are hot and humid with temperatures regularly in the 80s F.
Autumns and springs in Fishers have very comfortable temperatures normally around 70 F, but springs have much less predictable weather and drastic temperature shifts are common.
Average High 33 F 43 F 48 F 61 F 71 F 81 F 85 F 82 F 77 F 64 F 46 F 39 F 61 F Average Low 19 F 23 - F 30 F 41 F 50 F 63 F 69 F 65 F 57 F 46 F 33 F 22 F 43 F Average Snowfall (Inches) 7 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 6 City of Fishers 375 The Town of Fishers is positioned along Interstate 69.
Fishers is 15 miles northeast of downtown Indianapolis and five miles from the Interstate 465 loop which joins Interstate 69 with Interstate 65, which runs northwest to Chicago and southward to Louisville; Interstate 70, running east to Columbus and west to St.
State Road 37 runs directly through Fishers, connecting Fishers with a several other Indiana metros/cities and towns.
Fishers has a general aviation airport, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Airport (KUMP), and the town/city is positioned roughly thirty minutes from Indianapolis International Airport. Fishers is also featured in the first phase of the Indianapolis mass transit plan, featuring a light rail fitness that will run from downtown Indianapolis through Fishers to Noblesville. As a fast-growing town, the roads in Fishers are mostly new and well-maintained.
On April 10, 2012 the Town of Fishers announced a $20 million investment in the 2012 Drive Fishers initiative; an accomplishment that will focus on areas in Fishers that have had a history of high-traffic volume, such as 96th Street and Allisonville Road, State Road 37, and Fall Creek Road in Geist. The Town of Fishers is served by Hamilton Southeastern School District, a precinct educating almost 21,000 students every day.
Fishers's quickly burgeoning population has created a need for a similar expansion in the number of schools inside the Hamilton Southeastern School District as well as additions to existing schools.
In 1996 there were four elementary schools, one middle school, one junior high school, and one high school.
With the openings of Riverside School and Fishers High School in the 2006 2007 school year and Thorpe Creek Elementary in the 2008 2009 school year, the school precinct has twelve elementary schools, three intermediate schools, three junior high schools and two high schools. The two high schools in the precinct are Hamilton Southeastern High School and Fishers High School.
Fishers High School Fishers High School The twelve elementary schools are Brooks School Elementary, Cumberland Road Elementary, Durbin Elementary, Fall Creek Elementary, Fishers Elementary, Geist Elementary, Harrison Parkway Elementary, Hoosier Road Elementary, Lantern Road Elementary, New Britton Elementary, Sand Creek Elementary, and Thorpe Creek Elementary.
The four junior highs are Fishers Junior High, Hamilton Southeastern Junior High, Riverside Junior High, and Fall Creek Junior High.
The two high schools are Fishers High School and Hamilton Southeastern High School.
Fishers also has a several private schools including Community Montessori School (PK-5), St.
The reservoir is positioned minutes away from the Hamilton Town Center shopping complex and the downtown region of Fishers.
Fishers was titled the second Best Under-rated Golf Community in U.S.
By Livability in 2010. Fishers is home to Symphony on the Prairie, a summer concert series that takes place at Conner Prairie, presented by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.
The Town also offers a no-charge summer concert series behind the Fishers Government Center, in the refurbished Nickel Plate District where an amphitheater was assembled in 2012.
Fishers Music Works, an umbrella organization for lesser music performance ensembles, was created in spring 2013, offering a wide range of no-charge and ticketed concerts, performed by Fishers inhabitants and very small-town talent. The Parks and Recreation Department host outside movie evenings at the Amphitheater as well as holiday affairs. Fishers is positioned near the Klipsch Music Center, which hosts concerts.
Fishers has two annual festivals: the Fishers Freedom Festival and the Fishers Renaissance Faire.
The Fishers Freedom Festival (FFF) takes place every year at the end of June, right before Independence Day.
The Fishers Renaissance Faire, presented by the Sister Cities Association of Fishers Indiana, has been held annually since 2005.
Its purpose is to jubilate the Sister City relationship of Fishers with Billericay, England.
The Town of Fishers is home to over a dozen parks and nature preserves.
Billericay Park was titled after the town's sister town/city Billericay, England.
Fishers Heritage Park at White River is home to the Historic Ambassador House and Heritage Gardens.
Holland Memorial Park is the site of the Fishers Freedom Festival.
Wapihani Nature Preserve is a 77-acre nature preserve positioned along the White River in Fishers.
Other famous inhabitants of Fishers include former Indiana Pacers players Reggie Miller, Austin Croshere, and Dahntay Jones, Zach Randolph of the Memphis Grizzlies, Gary Harris of the Denver Nuggets, former Atlanta Hawks player Alan Henderson, Zak Irvin of the Michigan Wolverines; NFL player Rosevelt Colvin, formerly of the Houston Texans, Chicago Bears and New England Patriots, Randy Gregory of the Dallas Cowboys, Joe Reitz of the Indianapolis Colts, former Colts defensive line coach John Teerlinck, former San Diego Padres player Tony Gwynn, experienced wrestler Kevin Fertig, and Cleveland Indians pitcher Justin Masterson.
The Town of Fishers has earned many awards; below are some of the various awards and accolades the town has received.
Indiana Association of Cities and Towns (IACT) Green Community Fishers is twinned with Billericay, England, United Kingdom United Kingdom. Billericay Park is titled after the sister city.
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