Dearborn

city in Wayne County, Michigan, USA

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Dearborn is a city located in Wayne County, Michigan, in the United States. It is historically significant as the home of the Ford Motor Company's headquarters and manufacturing operations, making it central to American automotive history.

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Instance of: city in the United States
Named after: Henry Dearborn
Official name: Dearborn
Country: United States
Located in: Wayne County
Population: 109976
Area: 63.381624
Elevation: 180
Time zone: Eastern Time Zone
Head of government: Abdullah Hammoud
Shares border with: Detroit
Official website: dearborn.gov
Image: FordGlassHouse.jpg
Households: 31797
Dialing code: 313

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postal code: 48128
Commons category: Dearborn, Michigan
native label: Dearborn
topic's main category: Category:Dearborn, Michigan
inception: 1786-00-00
category of associated people: Category:People from Dearborn, Michigan
category for people born here: Category:Births in Dearborn, Michigan
Commons gallery: Dearborn, Michigan
located in the statistical territorial entity: Metro Detroit
category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Dearborn, Michigan
P8168: continental island
water as percent of area: 1.0105
different from: Dearborn
per capita income: 25611
twinned administrative body: Hermosillo

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Encyclopedic overview

Dearborn is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. An inner-ring suburb of Detroit, Dearborn borders Detroit to the north and east, roughly 7 miles (11.3 km) west of downtown Detroit. In the 2020 census, it had a population of 109,976, ranking as the seventh-most populous city in Michigan. Dearborn is best known as the hometown of the Ford Motor Company and of its founder, Henry Ford.

The first written settlement of Dearborn is from the 18th century by French Canadian voyageurs who initially called the settlement La Belle Fontaine or Place aux Fontaines because of the abundant springs in the city. Therefore, Dearborn was once named Springwells, an anglicization of the French name. The settlement was connected to the Detroit River ribbon farm communities and other farms connected to the Rouge River and the Sauk Trail. The community grew in the 19th century with the establishment of the Detroit Arsenal on the Chicago Road linking Detroit and Chicago. During the 20th century, it developed as a major manufacturing hub for the automotive industry.

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