Local city information for Fishers, IN

Fishers is a town located in Fall Creek and Delaware townships, Hamilton County, Indiana, with a population of 65,382, according to a special census conducted in 2007. A suburb of Indianapolis, Fishers has grown rapidly in recent decades: about 350 people lived there in 1963, 2,000 in 1980, and only 7,200 as recently as 1990. Fishers was ranked the 24^th best place to live in America by Money magazine in 2005, 33^rd in 2006, and 10^th in 2008.

Fishers was originally named Mudsock. Eventually, the name was changed to Fishers Switch, a reference to the railroad switch assignment. It was named after Salathial Fisher and was later shortened to just Fishers in 1908.

Fishers is located at 39°57'22" North, 86°0'46" West (39.956177, -86.012754), along the West Fork of the White River.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 21.8 square miles (56.4 km²), of which, 21.7 square miles (56.2 km²) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km²) of it is water. The total area is 0.46% water.

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