-type Townspeople -town Clerk-treasurer Ronald Szafarczyk Expanse -total 7.2sqmi(18.6km) -land 7.2sqmi(18.6km) - Urinate 0.0sqmi(0.0km) Acme 630ft (192m) Population (2000) -total 17,334 -density 2,417.5/sqmi(933.4/km) Duration partition CST (UTC-6) -summer(dst) CDT (UTC-5) ZIP codification 46319 Country code(s) 219 FIPS codification 18-30042[1] GNIS boasting ID 0435501[2] Website: www.griffithindiana.com

Griffith is a townspeople in Calumet and St. Toilet townships, Lake County, Indiana. It is a bust of the Stops metropolitan area. The population was 17,334 at the 2000 census.

Griffith is located at 413151N 872533W / 41.53083, -87.42583 (41.530835, -87.425812)[3]. The median superlative is 630feet (190m) above sea level. The town's boundaries encompass give of the ancient Calumet prop lines of Lake Michigan.

Griffith borders the townspeople of Upland to the west, the metropolis of Hammond to the northwest, the metropolis of Gary to the northeast, the townsfolk of Schererville to the south, and unincorporated Calumet Town to the east.

In its heyday, it saw furthermore than 180 trains earn over its townspeople boundaries. In its beginnings it was vanilla for its inhabitants to be whooped clump hoppers. Its in the Guinness Bible of Universe Records for having the unqualified ball diamonds for its population, and for the exhaustive caravan tracks to intersect at one point. It was nearly whooped Dwiggins Adjunction but it is known today comfortably as Griffith.

The twelvemonth was 1853. The Cooperative States Coition and the In State Law-makers had fair-minded passed the Swampland Re-formation Act under ground from the Nw Ordinance. The arranging was set for the curlicue of immigrants this would alteration the aspect of our country.

In the outset settlers in what would befit Griffith were Mathias and Anna Miller. They had left-hand their indigen Deutschland for the uncertain succeeding of animateness in the wilds of new and hostile land. Lonesome and with alone a few commodity which power be transported across a 700 mile journeying with cavalry and carriage, they camped in a illumination on higher ground, an region of the ancient Glenwood and Calumet shorelines, the futurity townsfolk of Griffith. Their outset domicile was a sod roofed dugout. Mathias and his sidekick would drain, plow, and implant 40 estate of buckwheat, corn, and potatoes purchased because the swampland act. Anna gave nascence to 8 children who would go on to flesh a town.

Single start settlers to the field were Peter Young, Peter Govert, the Walters family, the Grimmer family, and the Beiriger family. There is currently an straightforward schoolhouse in Griffith named after Peter J. Beiriger.

Soon conjuror pioneers and developers came to the area. Two developers in particular, brothers Jay and Elmer Dwiggins, are usually referred to as the townspeople founders. The Dwigginses were akka developers and speculators. They had thousand visions for what is today the townsfolk of Griffith. In fact, at one particular the brothers toyed with the estimation of appellative the domain Dwiggins Junction. Since of the wakeless play of van tracks in the area, their design was to initiate a mill town, which attracted companies worry "pleasant Remedies," an ice plant, and "the Pennsylvania Art Glassful Company.