Kokomo ( KOH-kə-moh) is a city in Indiana and the county chair of Howard County, Indiana, United States. It is the principal city of the Kokomo, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes everything of Howard County, the Kokomo-Peru CSA, which includes Howard and Miami counties, as capably as the North Central Indiana region consisting of six counties anchored by the city of Kokomo. Kokomo’s population increased from 45,468 at the 2010 census to 59,604 in the 2020 census.

Named for the Miami Ma-Ko-Ko-Mo who was called “Chief Kokomo”, Kokomo first benefited from the genuine business joined with monster the county seat. Before the Civil War, it was connected in imitation of Indianapolis and later the Eastern cities by railroad, which resulted in sustained growth. Substantial accumulation came after the discovery of large natural gas reserves, which produced an economic boom in the mid-1880s. Among the businesses which the boom attracted was the fledgling automobile industry. A significant number of perplexing and engineering innovations were developed in Kokomo, particularly in automobile production, and, as a result, Kokomo became known as the “City of Firsts.” A substantial part of Kokomo’s employment nevertheless depends on the automobile industry.

The city of Kokomo was named after the Miami man Ma-Ko-Ko-Mo, said to have been one of the four sons of Chief Richardville, last of the chiefs of the Miami people. Tradition holds that David Foster, the “Father of Kokomo,” named the town Kokomo after the “ornriest Indian upon earth” because Kokomo was “the ornriest town on earth.” Kokomo is thought to have been born in 1775 and died in 1838. The without help documentary proof of his existence is a trading post collection of a purchase of a barrel of flour for $12 for his “squaw.” His remains (with those of others) were reportedly discovered during the construction of a axiom mill in 1848 and re-interred in the “north-east corner” of the Pioneer Cemetery. The tradition of the Peru Miami is that the town was named after a Thorntown Miami named Ko-kah-mah, whose broadcast is rendered Co-come-wah in the Treaty at the Forks of the Wabash in 1834. That publicize was translated as “the diver” (an animal that could swim below water).

As a outcome of various removals, by 1840 the Miami population in Howard County (until 1846 known as Richardville County) was condensed to virtually 200. The principal harmony was the Village of Kokomo, on the south side of Wildcat Creek. Indian paths associated Kokomo afterward Frankfort and Thorntown (along the Wildcat) and led to Peru by pretentiousness of Cassville, and to Meshingomesia by pretension of Greentown. At the period David Foster had a trading publish in Howard County, near the intersection of the reservation boundary extraction and Wildcat pike, where he engaged in both authentic trade and illegal sale of alcohol to the Miamis on government property.