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Cities and towns on the line

Fort Wayne and the smaller cities are corporations laid over the township grid. A person can live in the district and inside a city, or in the district and outside every city. The district line does not move to follow a city limit.

Area of each incorporated place that falls inside the twelve-township boundary:

Measuring city and town limits against the township boundary…

“Inside” is the intersection of the Census place polygon with the union of the twelve township polygons. A town listed in full is entirely within the district. A city listed in part crosses out of it. Places with only a sliver of overlap, under about five hundredths of a square mile, are left off the list.